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Materials costs? Honestly? It would take decades, what kind of materials do you think starting welders are practicing on? Grade2 titanium?
by kevviiinn 4y ago
Materials costs? Honestly? It would take decades, what kind of materials do you think starting welders are practicing on? Grade2 titanium?
- dieselgate 4y agoi mean, even steel isn't _that_ cheap. not to mention Al. I'm skeptical of the product myself but there's a lot of materials/equipment for welding: grinders, PPE, physical space to do stuff, cutoff saws (I want an Evolution cold cut saw but it's not worth the price for me right now), consumables, gasses etc. Edit: but yeah all those are likely less than the "affordable" MSRP of 3150 clams - i've always been curious who Miller's target clients are, in my experience they have great tech and products but are super expensive. YesWelder is a better alternative in my opinion fwiw
- kevviiinn 4y agoSchools already have the equipment, scrap steel isn't expensive and most trade schools with metal shops have a bunch lying around. Sure blades and grinding wheels need to be changed out sometimes but for an established program this product seems rather silly to me. The student gets the absolute minimal exposure with basically no real practice Anyone practicing on aluminum has already been welding for a while so again this product would be useless for them. I don't think any reasonable program would start out new students on aluminum
- dieselgate 4y agoI agree and am still trying to determine the target use case here. Maybe Miller is so flush they developed it and don’t have much to lose, if people buy into the ecosystem good for Miller.