The Lincoln Electric K2185-1 Mig Welder is Tops!

If you are interested in doing some wire-welding, then the Lincoln Electric K2185-1 Mig Welder, which comes in at 115 Volt, 70 amps is the perfect Flux Core Wire Feed Welder for you! It plugs into your regular 20 amp outlet and is extremely compact and portable so you can take it over to the in-laws to weld that security gate for them or down to the holiday- house to do a bit of welding on the boat with no problems. Take a look at some reviews of the K2185-1 at Amazon below.

I was seriously a bit of sceptic when I heard about the Lincoln Electric K2185-1 Mig Welder, and I did not think that it could possibly do all that I needed it to do, but boy was I wrong. So wrong in fact that I had to buy a buddy a few beers to apologise for not taking him at his word! He just laughed and invited me to share them with him though.

But to get back to serious business, I highly recommend this little unit – it did everything I asked of it and more besides. My first task was to do some welding on the exhaust of my wife’s car, and I thought I was going to have problems, but the Lincoln K2185-1 worked like a dream. I have done a few other jobs with it too, and even though I have not got around to purchasing the shielding gas yet, I find the flux core works very well for me.

Lincoln Electric K2185-1 Features

• Welds up to 1/8 in. mild steel.
• MIG and flux core welding with option of shielding gas too.
• Welding wire is kept electrically cold until the gun trigger is pressed by cold contactor safety feature.
• It has four voltage settings and a continuous wire-feed speed.
• This Wire Feed Welder is compact, lightweight, and is extremely user-friendly.
• Weighing in at a mere 46 pounds makes it very portable.
• The 70 amps welder plugs into my house’s 115Volt, 20 amp outlet.
• I can use it to do virtually all the light gauge mild steel welding projects around my home and on my boat.
• It is very reasonably priced and comes weld-ready.

I really appreciate the fact that this unit is so light and yet so hard-working. I thought that I may have some problems when I wanted to weld a slightly thicker security gate, but this little baby showed metal; it handled the job with the greatest of ease. When it comes to dialling down to work with 18 gauge sheet metal I found that the four settings provided make it easy. Even when my son swiped my new Lincoln Electric K2185-1 Mig Welder to do some welding on his bike he said it was a pleasure to use, and he has only welded once before in his life!

If you want a welder that will be able to do virtually every handyman job that you will ever have to do, then it is really always better to buy a brand that is known for its reliability and quality instead of buying an unknown brand which will give you endless problems. Lincoln Electric is such a firm, and the Lincoln Electric K2185-1 Mig Welder is one piece of equipment which you will never be sorry that you invested in.

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