everlast vs Longevity ?

[SeanMurphy265]

Hmmm ... interesting. I can see why a company would do that, though - drive lots of traffic for relatively little investment. They could probably pepper pretty much the entire country with those sorts of ads and it would only take a few hours of work. Tactics like that don't really scream "professional" to me, but if they're just looking for views, that'd get it done.

There is a CNC Plasma table company that places adds on Craigslist as well.

[xalky]

I've ordered a 250ex which, with any luck, i should be recieving by the end of this week or beginning of next week.

I had a Longevity 256PI multipurpose machine, which for the most part , i was happy with, except the HF plasma start was not conducive to CNC plasma controls. Live and learn.

I would have kept it but I sold it because i needed the money to buy a Hypertherm plasma cutter at the time. I did do some AC tig welding with it, and though I'm no tig expert I managed to weld some 3/8" aluminum with it. When I get my 250ex, the first thing i might do is weld some 3/8" aluminum just to have something to compare.

BTW: The buyer of the Longevity was Thom over at CandCNC because he wanted the noisiest (HF EMI) plasma cutter he could find to bullet proof his cnc systems. He said it was noisier than anything he's ever fired up including some of the old ESAB HF plasma cutters. His exact words were "It's a good thing that i wasn't wearing a pacemaker when i fired it up". I think he gave up on trying to get his cnc controls to work with it...LOL I fried 2 computers and a few cnc controllers trying to get that thing to work... a costly lesson indeed.

[sticks]

It was an even split for me on which brand for my plasma cutter, I was leaning towards Longevity, as I was going to pick up their 200A MIG/Stick welder also, but 2 unanswered emails, and 2 phone calls to the sales department not returned settled that issue for me.

The plasma came in a bit higher than I wanted to spend for something that is going to be toted around in my service truck, but I needed to make sure the tool fit my needs.

[Elantramax1]

I Chose the Everlast I-Mig 140E because of the Inverter design.