You'll be surprised. It took me less than a year to outgrow my first welder. Once you learn you'll likely find 1000 unanticipated uses.smokeyjoe wrote:Yeah, I'm wouldn't weld anything that thick anyway unless I had a lot of experience. I'm wanting to do some lighter stuff. My ultimate goal is to build something like a Backwoods clone so I don't that would require anything that my machine isn't capable of.