Update: Both of my new machines are still sitting in the box, until I need them next week. I like to relish opening new things unless I need them right away.
Funny side story, a buddy of mine kept asking to borrow my welder...which is the other reason besides needing 110v that I bought another welder. The guy is one of those loveable sh!tshows, and everything w/ him predictably becomes a fiasco. He is a male bimbo blonde gone punk for lack of better description.
I finally got sick of needing my welder while he was borrowing it repeatedly, because every time for one reason or another he couldn't do the job. One of which being he really also needed a 110v machine. He couldn't get my 220V machine to adapt, despite being an electrician by trade smh.
Anyways long story over, I went to HF and bought him a titanium 140...partially in trade for some of his stuff, but mostly to save our friendship (and my sanity).
I set it up to make sure it worked before handing it over. It welds pretty, good enough for him....but the wire delivery would drive me nuts, I wouldn't keep it for me. I would say they are better than the fake Lincolns at the orange store.
I threw in a 50cfm tank of 25/75...its plug and play now. Hopefully this gets him out of my hair... so I can get back to welding, and getting paid instead of paying.
I'll update again when I get that LE31 cracked open and burning. Eager to compare it to the HF ti140.