Lincoln Electric90i FC Flux Core Wire Feed Weld-PAK Welder, 120V Welding Machine, Portable w/Shoulder Strap, Protective Metal Case, Best for Small Jobs, K5255-1

The Lincoln Electric 90i FC is a fantastic compact welder! Lightweight with a handy shoulder strap, it’s ideal for quick repairs. The metal case adds durability, and performance is smooth. Highly recommend for DIYers!

The Lincoln Electric 90i FC is perfect for small jobs—lightweight, portable, and easy to use. The shoulder strap and metal case add great protection and convenience. Highly recommend for DIYers and pros alike!

Let me start of by saying I am not a welder. I am a high school science teacher by trade. I am very handy and have a love of woodworking, electronics repairs, building/engineering design projects, and a wide variety of other things, but I am not a professional in any way. I would call myself a DIY enthusiast. I recently needed a welder to repair some steel fencing around the house. I looked into my options and decided that a flux core welder would probably be idea, but I always try to buy tools that are better than my needs, with the idea that they will last a lot longer and be more versatile. MIG welding is one of those things that I may need at somepoint down the road when I am working on cars (another hobby of mine), so when I saw that this one could also be setup for MIG welding I decided to spend a bit extra for that capability since I do not want to have two welders in my garage. This one is wonderfully compact and runs off the 110V power from my house. I do use a thicker gage extension cord with it but when I set it up with Lincoln Electric branded flux core wire (ordered seperately) and set it to the recommended settings for the job I was doing I found that it was very easy to use. My welds were not pretty because I am not a professional welder, but I did find that I was able to get very good results and within just a few welds I was getting very nice results. I was very impressed with how portable this welder is and how little space it takes up. My backpack of welding supplies and safety gear (also from Lincoln Electric) actually takes up more space than the welder. Heck, I think my welding helmet is larger than this welder. Setting it up was easy. Using it was easy. This was definitely a better welder than I needed, but I am so glad I have it!

Highly recommend. Worth the money

We bought this welder a few months ago and have several hours of welding on it now. We are very surprised on how well this small welder performs! Highly recommend this unit for small welding jobs. Can’t beat it for this price.

Overall a great little machine, surprisingly compact and light but plenty of power to melt quite thick steel (sometimes when you didn't want to!). I'd never welded before, had no training beyond YouTube videos, but by the end of the day practicing on blanks, I was confident enough to repair a fire guard: not the prettiest of welds and the fluxcore wire does splatter quite a bit but the welds are strong. Get a good abrasive disk and some black paint and nobody will ever know. One complaint is with the earth clamp where the bonding braid fell out after a couple of welds - it's too short and wasn't fixed in well enough. Lincoln has a good reputation at the high end, this is definitely a cheaper-built machine competing with the many low-end welders on here; I think the name will help when I come to upgrade and want to sell it.

As a hobbyist/home handyman, I considered myself the world's worst welder using a HF buzzbox. My welds were atrocious and could not be trusted to hold two pieces of paper together. I purchased the Lincoln 90i FC and guess what? My welds improved instantly. Though I may have graduated to world's second worst welder, I can definitely weld two pieces of metal together and have them stick. What a world of difference a quality tool makes. I can positively say that any deficiency in the quality of my welds squarely lies on my shoulders and cannot be blamed on the machine. The 90i FC is a very capable unit and has all the power I need as it will easily trip a 20A breaker on the highest setting. Can't imagine being able to use a more powerful unit without going to 220v. I also considered going with the 90i FC mig but decided against it because of the added expense and learning curve of adding a gas cylinder. Sure it might be better but unless I get into more serious work, this is all the machine I think I will need.

i sold my forney, a 120v 120A max flux core welder for $100 and bought this. still 120v 120A, but i wanted something with:- more granular voltage control, better than the forneys "sheet metal/thin plate" two-voltage rocker switch. having an infinitely adjustable dial between 1-10 is spectacular for me.- *significant* savings in size and weight, which meant an inverter welder. my forney was probably 40lbs and the size of a large laundry basket. awkward to move. this thing is the size and weight of a large shoebox...- ive only used it on a few jobs so far, but i swear using inverted power splatters less, and makes for a killer weld almost every time. as i said, it almost feels like cheating compared to my old machine.- the torch, workclamp, and power cable are all high quality- cold feed switch makes swapping spools effortless AND safe- keep in mind since this is a flux core only unit, the torch has no big fat gas shield on the end that normally also protects the electrode. i LOVE it, gives me a great view of my work at any angle. just gotta be careful and watch your CTWD or youll tear through electodes.*thats a 12" laptop leaning against it in the pic, for size reference*