Here we go,
Ordered the welder on Tuesday 9/11,
Was surprised it was sitting out in my driveway when I came home on Friday evening 9/14, thought wow that was fast, hardly had time to anticipate my new toy.
The smaller of the two boxes it came in was pretty damaged I took pictures of the Box in case there was any problems.
Went out to the toy box Saturday morning to open the boxes I was totally amazed at how well packed everything was there was no damage to the contents of the smaller box due to the way it was packaged, again I'll say very well packaged. Probably didn't take me 45 minutes to put the thing together and plug it in maybe even a little less if you consider I had to take the time to look at everything that was sent. Okay, ready to give it a shot,
I bought a old equipment trailer tri axle last summer for 500 bucks all stripped down no fenders no electrical no ramps nice project to work on in my spare time. I had a century 170 wire feed it took a dump in the middle of working on the second ramp. Took it into my local weld shop they had it for 2 weeks told me it wasn't worth fixing. So off I went hunting for a new welder, thought I would upgrade a little bit was amazed at the prices had my Centry for 20 years, so here we are blah blah blah ready to weld with my new Eastwood mp250i sounds impressive great price lol,
So I threw to scrap pieces of 10 gauge in the bench vice looked inside the wire feed door for the settings on the chart I think it's the first time I've ever done that my centry had a similar chart but I don't think I ever looked at it. Hooked up the ground cable put on my mask and put that Mig torch to the metal burn right through that sucker tweaked the settings down a little bit and tried it again Welded that 10-gauge very nice. Worked out there about 2 or 3 hours and finished up the second ramp. Went back out Monday yesterday and welded on the almost half inch thick hinge brackets for the ramps on the back of the trailer, had a hard time getting the settings right for that but it was more due to my lack of experience as a welder on a vertical weld but once I figured it out it welded pretty damn nice.
So anyway, that's where we are now I must say I am very pleased with this machine so far, definitely quite an upgrade from my old machine. At this point, time will tell. Hopefully I will never have to try out the warranty, and if anything changes I will update,
And like I said in my first review, I gave Eastwood a shot and they came through. So far so good...
Go Eastwood...
Thank you!

Ps. Hey Eastwood,
Send me a ball cap with your name on it I'd be proud to wear it.
Thanks again!
Don J.