Reader Question: Zena Welders Too Good To Be True?
By J.R. Bluett
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]
June 30th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
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.
June 30th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I think I feel safer that our Miller Trailblazer is truck-mounted
June 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
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).
June 30th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Real or not the only thing that comes to mind when seeing this post was the “time machine” from Napoleon Dynamite
July 1st, 2008 at 12:34 pm
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.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I think it’s pretty cool, but I’d want to see one in action before buying, to be sure!
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:28 am
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……
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:40 am
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.