It's good that you share that sort of experience with equipment... At least, we know that a new one will be on it's way. Statisticly speaking, the new one should be okay...

Get an RTA and Send it back. The more you touch, the more it will be shaped by them as something you did. I am very experienced at troubleshooting, but that is the responsibility of EVERLAST. Listen to Don

I got the PowerTIG 200DV a year ago; it's been solid since day one. My only gripe is the position of the gas inlet port; it's dead-center in back, so the bottle will pinch the hose. I did go to Harbor Freight & bought the MIGMAX 215 at the same time; it's still going strong.

Steve, finally finished watching the whole video.......glad you got thru to sales and someone to help you.... hopefully they will get you fixed up.....thanks for the shout out by the way......Paul....

Don. My brother was a chief engineer at several recording studios. Motown then years later larrabee. He had a clients console laying on its back with all the 22 gauge solid copper interconnect cables cut out. Fix one 3 more break. The owner comes in and almost faints when he sees every wire cut out of this console. I worked perfect after new stranded wires and a lot of fresh caps.

You sure are level headed about this, (notice I did not say you have a flat head),(lol), Anyone could get a dud. Nice to see you give them a chance to redeem them selves. Hopefully it will turn out OK, if not take Don's (or is it Donna now?) unit, it was all his fault anyway. You guys are great entertainment and every now and then I learn something. Thanks!

Way better with the picture. Thanks for fixing it.

18 years ago I bought a Hypertherm GT1000 plasma cutter and before the warranty was out the thing started smoking while I was using it one day. I took it to my dealer and they sent it to warranty repair. A few weeks later I got it back and it has worked well ever since. They told me they got a bad batch of IGBT modules from China. I still use it today. I bought a rotary welding table 2 years ago and when I plugged it in it would not turn. I took the cover off the control box and a connector came off the power board, I plugged it in and it worked well. I bought an Everlast tig, stick unit with a cooler 6 years ago and it works well today.

I'd like to see a schematic for that; I'll bet it has more than one PTC polyfuse on one or more of those boards. They are designed to be self-resetting, but sometimes they're a crib death in new devices. When they destructively pop (they blow out the side), certain functions fail.

I've been on a fence for about a year thinking about buying one of these everlast machines. This video kind of makes up my mind for me.

Steve i think you made a good choice. They are backing the priduct. I hope the replacement works as intended. I hope it then works for at least 5 years. Ive considered them for my first new welder purchase and this set of videos has scared me.

I’ve got a PrimeWeld TIG and it’s been solid since day one. If my Lincoln MIG ever dies, that too will be a PrimeWeld. I think Everlast started off well and have let the quality slip over time.

Oh yeah, I started watching 18 months back when you & Don were going to rebuild your Bridgeport Mill, because I had just bought mine & was keen to learn all about the inner workings. 18 months later, I’m still non the wiser. I could die of old age waiting for you two clowns to get your act together & get back to completing the Bridgeport build. Perhaps I need to come back in another lifetime? 🤷‍♂️😜🙄😂😂🇦🇺

Years ago I had a Peavey mixer board that stopped making any sound. I called Peavey and they set me up with one of their engineers. He ask me if I was comfortable with opening up the Mixer. I said yes. So he told me how to open it up and call him back when I had it open. So maybe 20 minutes later I had it open and called him back. He told me how to check some of the parts. After several calls and different checks I made on parts everything I had checked was reading normal and good. The engineer said OK I think there is only one thing it can be. He said I think you have an output jack that has a cold solder joint. He said take the Jacks out of the back of the cabinet, He said I bet that is your cold joint. I took the nuts off the output jacks and one of them would just spin on the output wire it was supposed to be soldered to. I have had several pieces of Peavey equipment over the years. They have been good to work with.

At least they are making an attempt to satisfy a new machine nogo. Time will tell. Still, my mantra, Red or blue!

If I was there I would take those measurements for you. 👍🏻

hi I have a neverlast (Everlast) tig welder that is a tig, stick and plasma it was outside of the warranty by a month. It had been used a only several times for quick field repair work less than one hour run time total. It is a 50 amp plasma. I tested it before taking it on a field job and the plasma burned up with cloud of electrical smoke and the sound of dying squirrels. I called Neverlast and they told me that if I bought another new welder they would fix the broken one for for 500 dollars. I bought the new welder for about 2000 dollars and sent the burned out one back in the same box as the new one came in to repair. I had to pay freight. They made a big deal about only send the welder back in original packing. I asked for a box and they told me that they did not have any boxes which are required to return to the welder for repair. After several months it came back in a different box that was not intended for the welder and it was not packed properly. They changed the circuit board with a different used board. I am not sure if is even the same welder.The rear bezel was shattered and from not being packed properly. The welder bezel in the rear was covered with automotive primer in the air inlet. We do not paint here in our shop. The fan had a cracked fan blade and it flew off when I powered up after it came back from repair. When I tested it and the plasma worked but the tig would not start with high frequency. The high frequency worked when I returned it for a dead plasma. They then wanted me to send it back at my expense so they could remove the circuit board and return it with no circuit board. HMM???? I complained loudly and sent them an email saying I was going to sue for breach of contract. They then refunded the 500 dollars but not the return freight I paid to repair it and have it returned to me. They then said they were going to cancel the warranty on the new welder If I did not return the welder that they did not fix so they could take the circuit board out of it.. I had my lawyer send them a letter saying if they would do that we would sue them for breach of agreement. They then said they would not cancel the warranty. They then told me that they would not repair the welder I sent to have repaired and would not return the original circuit board. The new plasma torch for the new welder did not work as there were no springs behind the contacts in the torch head. They then sent me a plasma torch with no contacts and no springs. I complained again that the torch was not complete and it did not have the contacts or springs. The sales manger sent the repair parts division an email which included an email to me that indicated that the torch was not complete and I was a PIA. Hmm?? I sent the guy an email to explain to me what a PIA customer was?????? In 50 years I have 10 electric welders here and have never had this kind of adventure with a welding machine vendor. The new welder worked on one aerial job and I really do not want to use it for anything that important. I do not trust anything made by Everlast at all. I managed to fix the HF in the original welder. I did not want to tear all the circuit boards out as the HF appears to have parts on multiple boards on both sides of welder. The gas valve worked so I put in a timing relay across the coil of the gas valve that turns on the HF and now it works with a 1 1/2 seconds turn on when when the gas valve turns on. The HF circuit works like the circuits in one of my Miller transformer aircrafter tig welders. It fires the arc starts and then hf turns off after 1 1/2 seconds. I bought the welders to do aerial work and they did not cost 13000 like a Miller Dynasty. I bought a new fan from some guy in Taiwan on the internet and it works fine. No schematics, no service manual and a huge problem getting parts. I am not impressed with Everlast. I think these are hobby welders not suitable for industrial use. JB

Check the mother board. I have a Forney that looks like yours. All it would do is click. They told me it was the motor that drives the motor. That wasn’t the problem. Turns out it was the mother board that had shorted out. Then they told me you couldn’t get parts for it anymore. So I scrapped it.

I think expecting a customer to do all this is ridiculous. The next thing is that when you find it is actually broken, they refuse to take it back because the seals on one of the plugs have been broken. In UK English, this would be called a "Gotcha". Hope you get it sorted Steve. When our air fryer died after a couple of weeks and its carton had been tidied into the recycling, the maker arranged that the courier coming to collect the dead one to take away for inspection, would bring a packing carton with him, which he did.

What would they do if you probed the wrong thing and blew something? Thanks for the video. Never Everlast!

Good video steve

Goodness me. You two and power electronics. Like giving Colonel Sanders your chickens to mind when you go on holidays.

You should have shopped at Harbor Freight!😁😵‍💫

Vevor ain’t so bad. It was like Vertex in the mid to late 90’s. It was “Chinese crap” until a lot of people started using them. Kurtis at Cutting Edge in Australia has a tone of Vertex tools. I had a dividing head made by Vertex and now I have a Vevor dividing head and it’s fairly good.

Much better video worked this time

They have sent you instructions for a different welder. your digital controller is not sending signals to your power section.

Brand new welder that doesn't work and want you to fix their problem , unbelievable and really sad situation . 60 year old lincoln works everyday

LOL, you send that shit back and get a full refund if it doesn't work. You don't try to identify the defect, as the client.

Steve, Don't mess with my Buddy Don. You be nice to him or i Drive down from Chicago and weld all your machines together. Some China is good and some bad. You need to charge your time to Everlast.

Should have bought an HTP. Hey, there is a HTP Invertig in the background. The HTP Pro Pulse is on sale.

Seriously, PrimeWeld would have already sent you a new machine with a return shipping label. You can put as much lipstick on that pig, it's still an Everlast.

Does you clamp the roll to minus?. I remember the last video. I ran in the same problem with a new IGBT welder, but I was lucky and had a expirienced welder by my side.

If it doesn't have spark, did you try cleaning the points? Are you sure the flywheel key isn't sheared?? :)

No way would I do the troubleshooting on a brand new electrical device. After you send it back, they tell you, “You let the smoke leak out so you own it.”

At 16:59, it looks like the connector isn’t fully seated. It has the yellow wires on it.

I have a similar unit made by the Shanghai Lincoln electric company. The internal plastic hose which feeds the mig gas rotted out, replaced it with silicon hose Your unit is not firing the IGBT, Isolated Gate Bipolar Transistors. I don't have a circuit diagram with mine so cannot fault find if it fails. Probably ends up in the recycle bin. Fingers crossed

Neverlast welders wiring design on the tig welders I have are difficult to work on. Single functions have parts on multiple boards and the wiring harness is a mess to deal with. No wire numbers and the color code for the wiring makes no sense. Maybe we can make a video of shooting up a neverlast welder loaded with big bang powder? To figure out where the wires go requires taking the welder almost completely apart. What could go wrong with solder joints that are cold and a bunch of cheap connectors that attach to the circuit boards. I really doubt if one of these is taken apart it would every work right again? JB

you can do their QC and R&D for free and then project manage the entire deal

Did you know that Everlast is world renowned in the boating community... That welder is great as an anchor weight... the fact that they asked you to open the machine and asked you to trouble shoot the machine is insane its a brand new machine they should have sent you the entire setup and asked you to return the unit... i will do not mind buying overseas equipment but the customer service has to be on par with a US counterpart.... they are hard to come by but they are out there.... Buyer beware.... it cost you to delay a job not worth the hassle.

It looks like dons hair is growing back. old rockers never die they just grow old.

Send them a link to your video and see what happens.😁

You get a lot of lemons but usually you go back for more so hopefully the next one holds up like rock 3 or 4 or whatever its up to. LOL

Time to take Don back to the barber 😅

Steve, You Should Have Bought a Blue "Miller" - Not Chinese Crap... Oh, Where is Everlast's Service Dept - China ? Good Luck on That...

Dear Everlast Don happened -Steve

There is no such thing as liability when dealing w/ chinese products. You are on your own. :)

Check the output on the PO s.😅😅😂😂 I'm so glad I still have my Miller185 I was gonna buy this machine. Give me one good reason to buy this 1 and I will not.

I'd give them another chance too. If the next one is junk too then its refund time. We all get unlucky sometimes.

You know you should read manual for process setup before running issye that may be operator. Check the plus minus by the feeder.

Steve, I've watched you for a while and been a sub most of that time. I respect your knowledge and abilities, but I gotta say, you f*CKED up this time Bubba. Yeh. you saved some long green, but how much did the repair cost you? That cheap Chinese junk saves nothing in the long run. If it's broke right outta the box, how long will it work in the field? What blows me away is the company wants you to trouble shoot this rig, then report back to them. A reputable company would tell you to send it back, postage paid. Regards, Duck

Am I missing something? Isn’t that flat piece of cardboard box you have the machine laying on, the flattened out cardboard box it came in? 🤷‍♂️ That’s what it looked like to me, but admittedly I am a member of the short attention span theatre group & yeah I fell asleep somewhere in the middle and woke up sometime later with Kurtis from Cutting Edge line boring something, & had to go back to where I nodded off half way through & watch again, so I mighta missed something. To be truthful - it was like watching two old dogs tryn ya hump a baseball if I’m to be Frank’s. Send it back & get your cash back & buy a Miller. 👍

You didn't try giving it the old Fonzi punch.

Boca teeca??? Are you guys in Boca Raton?

Sticking your hand in that PCB at 17:13 with capacitors charged up at 240V is a very BAD idea unless you are a trained electronics expert. It's a one way ticket to instant death if your body is touching the ground on the welder table and you touch the positive end of the capacitor. A 10-100A jolt at 240V even for a short instance will not be good for your heart. You need to bleed off those capacitor charges first after the unit has been unplugged. Those caps will ruin your day very quickly if you put your fingers in the wrong spot. You will have an early retirement. At least Everlast put in a clear plastic shield, but make sure you know what you are doing before sticking your fingers inside of a welder box. Many of the Chinese brands don't even put shields, so you better know what you are doing. When the guy was sticking his finger on the board at 17:13, the only thing preventing instant death is that plastic shield.

Everlast, good name for a defective piece of equipment 😂😂😂

I would rather use an old Miller any day.

Really pisses me off , please forgive my language

Please spray a bit of WD40 on the hinges or create a late night horror show. Ron W4BIN

If Don gets a full sex change you'd have to change all your signs and shirts to _it's all Donna's Fault_ 😆🤣👍👍 Yeah I jest would've sent it back and got a replacement.

If you would have got you a primeweld if you had a problem they would have sent you a new machine...

Not meant to be repaired 🤪

Modern times. You bought it, your problem.

What Everlast had you do is typical for them. No manufacturer should ever expect the customer open their machine and take measurements. They generally try to have the customer make tests and measurements, sometimes, according to those doing it, over again. One guy who has a welding channel had serious problems trying to get them to take the machine for warrantee. After they finally did, it took 6 months and a number of calls to get it back, with the same problem. I know they give a lot of channels machines, which is how they got name recognition. Ethics have always been a problem for them. There are a lot of shills for them pretending they have their machines and showing up in the comments. Channels that get these for free, remember - free, do so on condition that they praise the machines. You can tell who these are by the phrases they use before making their welds. Something usually like; “I’m going to weld this using my Everlast 200ex 521 - a great machine!” That tells you they got it for free.

I like your machining content, not a fan ok this direction

Everlast is based out of California

I was warned about them thar LGBT mating machines........

If Don goes in for a full sex change I'm unsubscribing !! lol