YesWelder Dual Voltage 125-Amp Stick Welder w/ Digital Display Expired

If you are just starting to get into welding, and dont have any specific structural needs, you would likely be better off with a simple flux core/mig welder instead.
More akin to an industrial hot glue gun, much easier to use and less temperamental (The rods this welder uses are sensitive to humidity).

If you've never welded but you have a project in mind you'd like to get DONE, do yourself a huge favor and get a high-current flux-core machine. Do not mess with stick welding unless you're looking for an adventure.

Get a flux-core machine that says 200amps and it might actually do 160. You don't want less than that. Don't get a welder that's only good for 130amps, especially if it says 130amps, because it's probably only good for 90. Go through the trouble to get setup with 230v. 120v welding is possible, but your patience and your welder will love the 230v.

Use Lincoln .030" 211 MP wire. Don't mess around with $35 10lb spools. If you're a first-timer, don't mess with any wire that ends in GS. GS means single pass, which means the weld could crack with multiple passes.

Stick welding is great if you need to weld THICK metal and have a lot of patience for grinding and re-welding as a newcomer. Welding with flux-core is a much more enjoyable experience and doesn't involve hammering away slag. Slag with flux-core is so thin you can wirebrush it off. It's like smokey powder as opposed to thick, sandy glass/rock with stick welding. Flux-core welding is akin to soldering.

With first-time stick welding, you will absolutely have to get a grinder and grinding wheels. You're going to be digging a lot of slag out of tight spaces with stick. Just no way around it. With flux-core, all you need is a wire brush. Filler metal didn't fuse where you wanted it? Just make another pass, as long as you get flux wire than ends in -11. Or like I said, just stick with the Lincoln MP 211. You can use a wire brush on a drill, that's what I often use. You can get a wire wheel for a grinder and that's effing amazing. But not really necessary. You can just get a $5 wirebrush and it's totally fine.

I bought one about a month ago when they had a similar coupon and after watching this review:
https://youtu.be/vwD2vc_GODs

Great little welder for someone just getting started.