Welding and metalwork, judged properly
The machine, the wire
and the fume you cannot see
MIG, TIG and stick welders, plasma cutters, grinders and drills, compared on what actually changes the result — duty cycle at a stated temperature, wire feed quality, arc stability at low amps, the right consumable for the metal — and priced on your own country’s Amazon.
- Categories covered
- 2
- Machines reviewed
- 11
- Accessories reviewed
- 5
Every category we cover
Pick the thing you are buying
Twelve families of machine and twelve of consumables. Each hub below compares one of them, with a plain answer to “what should I actually buy?” at the top — and the buying mistake that category invites.
How this site works
Three things we will not do
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Ranked on merit, not commission
Nothing here is ordered by what it pays. Where a €200 inverter does the job of a €600 one, that is what the page says — and where the cheap option is a false economy, it says that instead.
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Measured, not paraphrased
Duty cycle at its stated amperage and temperature, open circuit voltage, wire feed rollers, quill travel, delivered air at 6 bar — the specifications that decide the job. Every figure names where it comes from, and a figure we could not source is left out rather than guessed.
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Priced where you live
One button, fourteen Amazon stores. We send you to the same product on your own country’s Amazon, in your own currency — and where a model is not sold there, we say so instead of linking to a page that does not exist.
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.