Mig Welder questions

A couple of years ago, we bought a whole bunch of stuff from a company that was closing. Actually for what we paid, we got an amazing amount of metal working equipment. Anyway, one of the items is an L-Tec Migmaster 250. It's been tucked behind a lathe for two years now and I'm thinking we should either use it or sell it. We dont have a need for welding very often, and I haven't welded anything in well over 20 years, so I'm not even sure that I could if I wanted to. My questions are :

(1) What are the capabilities of this welder? I know that's kind of a broad question, but I really don't know much about welding.

So, I'm also thinking I could sell it and we could use the money to buy some things we need.

(2) What would this welder be worth? It looks to be in very good shape. I doubt it has very many hours on it, it's just dusty from sitting. It needs a gas bottle, but everything else seems to be there. Including a full spool of wire.

TIA Dan

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Dan Murphy
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I don't know about that specific machine, you might want to ask in the welding newsgroup. I have an older ESAB/Chemetron 250 Mig welder at work. The unit has plenty of power and is great in spray mode on clean metal. You could check ebay's completed sales for an idea of the market value of your machine. Three phase welding units don't bring much money, since you would need something like a 20 HP rotary converter to use one at home.

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Vladimir Vladimirovich

"Vladimir Vladimirovich" wrote in news:smXLd.7475$ snipped-for-privacy@fe12.lga:

Thanks for the tip. I forgot about the welding ng. I'm leaning towards getting it fired up.

Dan

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Dan Murphy

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