Zena Inc.’s extensive website, though amateur-looking, advertises some welders with extremely impressive specifications, all backed by a three-year warranty and a 60-day free trial. They design the welders to attach to an existing engine, either freestanding or in a vehicle, and they claim that electric, gas, hydraulic, and pneumatic motors are all compatible with the welders.
Obviously, an assemble-your-own-welder kit could save you some money over a big commercial welder, but the specifications are hard to believe for $800. And I’m especially impressed by the specs on the pictured backpack welder, a cordless welder in a 65-lb backpack you can carry anywhere — no wonder they’re charging $3,750 for it.
Am I missing something? Does anybody out there have a Zena welder?
Backpack Welder [Zena]
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Are you sure that welder in the picture isn’t an ecto-blaster from “Ghostbusters?” All those exposed wires at the bottom are an accident waiting to happen.
I think I feel safer that our Miller Trailblazer is truck-mounted
Wow, that thing scares the bejeebus out of me. I’ll stay with my Miller (even if it’s specs aren’t quite as good).
Real or not the only thing that comes to mind when seeing this post was the “time machine” from Napoleon Dynamite
I second the ecto blaster. I’d hate to think what would happen if you had two of these things and then crossed the streams.
I think it’s pretty cool, but I’d want to see one in action before buying, to be sure!
So when Zul comes back we can get 3 or 4 of these together and send her back to the dimension form which she came……
I’ve been wanting a Zena welder for years and I think they are good idea however they talk about how they are so much cheaper then say a Miller Trailblazer then they want to charge over $3000 for something with an engine. If they sold the 150 amp unit for about $299 then they would have something. I have the engine.
I had a 150 Amp Zena welder under the hood of my pickup for several years and was extremely pleased with how well it worked! Unfortunatly it won’t mount as easily on my new pickup so I may have it converted to run off a tractor PTO.