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Before Prices Go Up: Best Machines of 2023

Look, we totally agree: Price increases suck. Inflation makes costs go up, resulting in almost all welding manufacturers generally increasing prices on machines and equipment at the beginning of ea...
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The Welder’s 2023 Holiday Buying Guide

There’s no doubt about it: We saw a couple of reindeer carb-loading the other day, Santa ordering a bunch of coal, and some of the best deals of the year on welding equipment; the holidays are offi...
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Best Ways To Spend Your Christmas Cash

The holidays hopefully mean a little bit of extra cash for you… or a lot of extra fruit cake. Investing in your welding equipment is one of the smartest things you can do when heading into a new ye...
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2022 Welding Holiday Gift Guide

For the first time in the last couple years, the holidays aren’t crippled with serious supply chain issues. This presents one of the biggest opportunities to find the perfect welding gift. With man...
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Manufacturer Rebates Are Back! Here’s Your Guide

For the past few years, supply chain issues meant demand for welding machines and equipment was way higher than manufacturer’s could supply. Because of this, almost every manufacturer pulled their ...
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What’s Going On With Miller?

For years, Miller had a perpetual promotion known as “Build with Blue” that featured new rebates every quarter. With COVID backhanding the global supply chains into a near-unrecognizable state, Bui...
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Your 2021 Welding Wrap-up

With 2021 coming to a close, we’d like to pull back the curtain a bit and share with you what were the most popular machines and helmets purchased at Welding Supplies from IOC. In the end, you shou...
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Miller Prices Are Going Up: Here’s What To Know

Before you drop a comment so full of expletives that even a sailor would blush, it’s important to understand who decides when Miller’s prices increase and why. We’ll explain what exactly is going o...
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Rebate Deals Are Ending, What’s Next?

March might have marked the end of Build with Blue, but there are still plenty of savings to be had. To be very clear, most major welding manufacturers are not, at the moment, planning on renewing ...
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Buying Bible: March 2020

Let’s lay it out, plain and simple. Things are a little up in the air right now as far as world events are concerned. What you need is a solid source of buying advice from a company that knows the ...
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New Esab Deals: What To Know

2019 is more than just another calendar for ESAB. They’ve entirely switched up their Burn and Earn Promotion including a brand new machine that’s set to release soon. Within the last few years, ESA...
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The Easiest Way To Get Free Gear

We call it a loyalty program, but it’s really just like “here’s free stuff!” And who doesn’t want things for free? “That depends on what the free ‘Stuff’ is,” you say? Well we’re talking anything w...
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End-of-the-year Buying Guide

With the end of the year comes a barrage of sweet deals on welding equipment and gear. It’s the perfect time to snag those machines you’ve been eyeing for the last 12 months. But most of these prom...
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5 Welders You Need To See Before 2017

If you’re thinking about getting a new welding machine sometime within the next year, there’s a couple deals going on right now you owe it to yourself to check out. All 5 of these welders are staff...
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How Can You Benefit From The Welder/generator Wars?

Lincoln just launched one of the best deals on welder/generators we’ve seen in at least a decade. Now Miller has joined the party with a sweet deal of their own. This War of the Welder/Generators ...
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The "build With Blue" Survival Guide

One of our favorite seasons is swinging into full bloom starting April 4th. What, Spring? With all the pollen in the air and the blooming flowers and the animals coming out of hibernation and fall...
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Everything You Need, Nothing You Won’t

We all spend about 92 days of our lives sitting on the toilet. That’s just one way we wasted time, but at least we have to do it. Wading through product page after product page to find the perfe...