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Is This the Best Welder for Beginners in 2025? Vevor MIG 270
Thinking about your first welder in 2025? Today we put the Vevor MIG-270 3-in-1 (MIG / TIG / Stick) through a real shop test by building a rolling welding cart from scratch. Full specs, setup quirks, flux-core vs gas performance, and final verdict—all in one video.
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Hey, it's Mark Leaport from ProShaper
0:02
Workshop in Charlton, Massachusetts. And
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what you're looking at is the Vivore MIG
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270. It's 220, has the 110 adapter. It
0:10
comes with the TIG torch, a stick
0:12
welder, the MIG gun,
0:16
a spool of flux wire, some hose clamps,
0:19
hose. It's got the the stick, lift TIG,
0:22
and MIG function. Has two displays. My
0:25
favorite feature about this is the auto
0:26
feed red button right up top. This is
0:29
the plug for the MIG gun. Just hooks up
0:31
right back here. Don't let go of the
0:33
wire. Got Brian spooling it up for us.
0:36
Then he's just, you'll see exactly where
0:38
it goes. There's a a hole right for it.
0:41
Make sure it gets all the way through to
0:43
the second one. Then close that. Lift
0:46
that up and twist it. As you can see,
0:49
we're using the auto feed function right
0:51
here. Just feeding it right through. No
0:53
problems. All right. with the uh Vivoor
0:56
MIG 270. We don't have a welding cart
0:59
for this. I got one for every other
1:00
welder, but with this machine, we're
1:04
going to try and use every function, and
1:05
we're going to build our own welding
1:07
cart. Why spend $50 when you can spend
1:10
$200 on materials and 10 hours to build
1:13
it? Okay, so the plan is to have two
1:15
tanks right here because this is a three
1:17
in one machine. It has the TIG and the
1:19
MIG function. So, I want two different
1:21
tanks. And then here's going to be the
1:23
cart. Uh, so we got 15 by 15 in by 8 for
1:27
the two tanks and then 24 by9 for the
1:29
car. For this machine right now, there's
1:31
obviously no gas hooked up. So, we're
1:33
just going to use the flux wire that
1:34
they gave us for the MIG. And we're just
1:36
going to tack everything together. Make
1:38
sure it's 90°. And then we might use the
1:40
stick to fill in the gaps. All right,
1:43
that's 90. We turn our own. We got the
1:47
ground.
1:50
Let's just uh attack it and see what
1:51
happens.
2:04
Not a fan of the flux,
2:07
but it does its job. It's really meant
2:09
for doing outside work. Like if you're
2:11
on a farm and working on a tractor
2:13
outside, flux will get you where you
2:15
need to be. But as you could see,
2:19
it kind of spatters everywhere. Don't
2:21
mind that gap at the end. I tried to cut
2:23
it with the band saw and I didn't really
2:24
quite get the 45. Um, little bit of
2:28
spatter. I don't know if you could see
2:30
that right there. Uh, but this thing's
2:33
pretty pretty well tacked. All right,
2:35
clamper back on. Helmet. Let's get the
2:39
back.
2:49
All
2:50
right. Now, that ain't going anywhere.
2:52
We'll get down here.
2:55
I'm going to go on the outside.
3:03
It's not stacking dimes. It just kind of
3:06
gets the job done. As you can see, it's
3:08
uh
3:11
little messy, but again, it's that's
3:14
that's sturdy. That's not going
3:16
anywhere. And that's just tacked. So, I
3:19
definitely give the MIG function and the
3:21
uh the flux a passing grade. I give it
3:24
probably a B minus. Now, we're just
3:26
going to put that all together and we're
3:28
going to weld this all up and I'll show
3:30
you what it looks like. So, this is the
3:32
settings I have for uh tacking my little
3:34
frame boxes. Uh there's the voltage,
3:37
there's the current, and then the wire
3:38
speeds about halfway. Um but this is
3:41
what flux looks like. You see, it's just
3:43
very,
3:45
very dirty.
3:47
And this is more for outside work if
3:50
you're going to do like hinges or
3:51
something and the gas is blow or the uh
3:53
wind's blowing. But then looking at the
3:56
other side, you know, I'm on 110. It's
3:59
got 220 capabilities, but it didn't go
4:02
completely through. And I believe I have
4:04
the amperage uh all the way turned up.
4:06
So, we're just going to hit it from this
4:07
side. But I may use the stick for that
4:10
just to see how it works. So, we'll try
4:13
that out in a minute. Okay. Okay. Now,
4:15
for stick welding, what you're going to
4:16
want to do is push the button up from
4:19
MIG to MMA. And then you're going to
4:22
make sure that the ground is on no gas.
4:28
And then the um the stick welder is on
4:31
the gas portion of the welder.
4:34
And if you ever have any questions or
4:36
anything, they give you a nice little
4:37
diagram inside the wire compartment.
4:41
It's all the way right down there. See?
4:44
Okay. So, for MMA, you're going to want
4:45
the stick part in the gas and then the
4:49
um the ground in the no gas. So, let's
4:52
make sure we that's how we have it
4:53
hooked up. And we are good to go. Now, I
4:57
am not a stick welder by any stretch of
4:59
the imagination. This is actually my
5:00
first time doing it. Um so, we'll see
5:03
how it goes because this is one of the
5:06
cool functions I I liked about this
5:07
machine was the fact that you could
5:09
stick weld. Always wanted to learn.
5:11
Now's my chance.
5:15
Let me just clamp that in there. Make
5:18
sure it's in one of those nice grooves.
5:22
All right, that's steady. We're going to
5:24
turn the machine on
5:29
and we're going to hope and pray.
5:52
Not bad. It's almost like striking a
5:55
match. It's but it's very light. You
5:57
just lightly tap it and then watch it
5:59
go. It is That is awesome. I am I am
6:02
actually really happy with that. So, now
6:04
we just kind of clean that up. We hit
6:06
off the uh the like slag that it has and
6:09
we'll see what it looks like. But I'm
6:10
going to turn this machine off before I
6:12
put this down so I don't arc anything.
6:15
All right, we're going to do the other
6:16
one. Yes, please.
6:18
All right. So, check this out. Oh, yeah.
6:29
>> Look at that, Brian.
6:32
Dude,
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>> hot damn.
6:34
>> I'm so happy about this. Stick welding
6:36
is the coolest thing ever.
6:37
>> That is awesome.
6:39
Let's keep finishing it.
6:50
All right, so we just finished the cart.
6:52
We got the tanks installed. We got hooks
6:54
for all our accessories. We tacked this
6:58
entire thing together with the flux core
7:00
wire that it had um that VBOR gave to
7:03
us. And then we stick welded everything
7:05
else, but uh put hooks on it for all the
7:08
accessories.
7:10
And the only thing I have now is it's
7:13
got the MIG. You can do gas or gasless.
7:17
We got the stick and then we have a lift
7:19
TIG. This was unique for us because I've
7:22
never used a lift TIG before, but we
7:24
will try it out very soon. The thing
7:27
with the lift TIG is it has an extra uh
7:30
hose and that gets tapped into the
7:32
regulator on the argon tank. It doesn't
7:35
go through the actual welder. Um so
7:38
that's kind of new to me. But there is a
7:40
function on the TIG. Let me show you
7:43
that. So here's the TIG with their uh
7:46
wire and then we spliced it into the
7:49
regulator. So it goes from there. And
7:52
the way you control that is with this
7:55
little uh flow
7:58
doodad.
8:00
That's how you control the gas. So, it's
8:02
got the plug for 220 and adapter for one
8:05
ton.
8:07
We'll just plug this in.
8:12
Turn it on.
8:14
Gas.
8:15
Gas on.
8:19
And then I just got a whole bunch of
8:20
different pieces of metal. Uh different
8:22
thicknesses and everything. Sheet metal,
8:25
18. I think I got 20 gauge and 16 gauge.
8:29
We got some really small angle iron.
8:32
Then some other thicker plate steel. And
8:35
we're just going to see how this MIG
8:37
works. All right. So I guess
8:42
I will start with the sheet metal.
8:46
I got two pieces of 18 gauge right here.
8:50
My boss is going to get mad that I'm
8:51
welding on this bench. Probably going to
8:52
weld to the bench. What do I got the
8:55
settings at? All right, I got the burn
8:58
back at about two. Voltage,
9:02
I think it was good at about 17 and then
9:05
the wire speed at about like the two and
9:08
a half notch. It's on MIG. Um, oh,
9:11
actually, one of the favorite things
9:12
about this I want to It's the auto feed.
9:16
This feeds it. It's little things like
9:18
that that just make me happy. All right.
9:20
Now, this is the gas MIG. You saw the
9:23
flux before. Sorry. I just wanted to
9:33
All right. And I'm just doing some quick
9:35
test runs because I'm still trying to
9:37
dial in this machine for me cuz we've
9:39
only had the gas for about I don't know
9:40
4 hours. Um but here it is. Little
9:44
penetration in the back. But
9:48
this thing is that that's solid. That's
9:51
not going anywhere. But that was 18
9:54
gauge.
9:56
Now let's try these. Hopefully Ray
9:58
didn't need these.
10:00
>> I think those are too far. Oh, I think
10:03
those are pieces for Jim's car.
10:05
>> All right, let's just
10:06
>> let's just tack it and see what happens.
10:08
I know I'm supposed to grind these, but
10:10
my boss is asleep and I just don't want
10:11
to wake him.
10:32
All right, that one I should have
10:33
actually turned it up.
10:35
I'm going to crank the voltage all the
10:37
way. I'll probably keep the wire speed
10:41
at about three and a half. Three.
10:47
Volts at 24 and 1/2. Let's try it again.
10:56
Too much.
11:00
Bring that wire speed up.
11:16
All right. I'm not making dimes yet.
11:21
It's uh not penetrated, but this is some
11:23
thick stuff. What' you say? Eighth inch,
11:25
maybe 316.
11:27
>> I think that's 8 inch plate.
11:29
>> All right. But like this is
11:34
Jesus.
11:36
Yeah.
11:36
>> Test is hitting it with a hammer.
11:38
>> Yeah, I'm not going to hit it with a
11:39
hammer right now, but like that is that
11:42
is solid. That's a solid weld. Um that
11:46
was just sheet metal 8 inch. I got
11:49
little pieces of triangles I was going
11:51
to do, but um I want to really try those
11:54
with the TIG.
11:57
Let's uh let's weld these two together
11:59
as a box.
12:06
Oh, and with this MIG, other the other
12:09
MIGs we have, you could just twist this
12:11
off. And I didn't know if this actually
12:13
came apart, but it's just a pull. Clean
12:17
it out. Make sure you get all that
12:18
spatter out of there. Then put it back.
12:21
Boom. So that's kind of nice.
12:25
All right. What do we got it at? Burn
12:27
back voltage.
12:30
I go halfway.
12:32
Yeah, that's good.
12:48
be a lot of grinding there, but Oh, that
12:51
is that's solid as a rock.
12:56
That ain't going anywhere.
12:59
I I love the gas. Uh for the MIG, the um
13:02
the wire, what' I get 0030?
13:05
>> Yeah. 030 8 mil. And uh it was easy to
13:09
feed through. I showed a video of how to
13:10
put it in before. Um, but yeah, I like
13:14
the flux. I like this gas even better.
13:20
I think that's it. Now I'm going to go
13:21
on to the stick welder. Stick. We're
13:23
going to actually check the
13:25
instructions.
13:28
All right. Stick is in the gas.
13:32
So, we take the um the ground off and we
13:37
take this off for the polarity. The
13:42
ground goes in. No gas.
13:45
You just twist and that locks in place.
13:48
And then the stick just goes on there.
13:52
And now, well, I didn't really put
13:54
anything. Oh, I could weld it right
13:55
here.
13:58
All right. Close your eyes. a guy that
14:02
works here, Mark, um he told me that the
14:05
old-timers would actually put these in
14:07
the um the little oven that you have,
14:10
the little convection oven. Said he put
14:12
it at 150° because the humidity, we
14:15
live, we're in New England and the
14:16
humidity has been crazy lately. But he
14:18
said the humidity just gets to these
14:20
rods and it kind of makes it hard to
14:22
start, but if you put it in the
14:23
convection oven at 150, it was so much
14:26
easier. Now, I don't know if that's
14:28
true. I'm asking you, but I thought that
14:30
was a pretty cool tip.
14:36
There we go.
14:49
Yeah, it's the sparking ever.
14:57
All right. And I know that took longer
14:59
than expected, but I love it.
15:03
Just want to make sure when I put that
15:04
down, it doesn't kill anything. Where's
15:06
my little brush? Vivore gives you a nice
15:09
little slag brush.
15:13
I mean,
15:14
>> brush came with it.
15:15
>> Yeah. Yeah. With a little hammer thing,
15:17
too. I mean, it's not the greatest, but
15:20
of course, I don't stick weld. This is
15:21
really my third time, and I that's why I
15:23
kind of got this machine because of the
15:25
stick welding capability. I really
15:27
wanted to learn forever. Um, but I mean,
15:30
not bad. I don't like those holes,
15:33
though. And that's what I found with the
15:34
flux. With the gas, there's no there's
15:36
no holes. Um, but with the flux and with
15:39
the stick, there's just all these minor
15:41
things. So, I'm probably doing something
15:43
wrong. And I'm sure people in the
15:44
comments will tell me, "You're an
15:45
idiot." Um, but it's my third time. And
15:48
I'm actually I'm having a great time. I
15:50
love stick welding. I think it's the
15:51
coolest thing ever. Uh, and that's hot.
15:55
Of course, it's not going anywhere.
15:58
And I'm not going to touch it anymore.
16:00
Yeah. Say it doesn't uh it's not the
16:02
greatest, but I'm sure I got to hit some
16:05
of that stuff off.
16:06
>> Well, again, it's only your third or
16:07
fourth time stick welding.
16:09
>> Exactly. Um but I love the stick. I
16:12
think stick welding's awesome. Now, for
16:14
the TIG welding, I'm gonna have Rey
16:16
really do that one because that's it's a
16:19
lift TIG. And I'm sure it works just
16:21
like the stick welder where you have to
16:23
kind of like just light it to get the
16:25
arc and then just feed it with the wire.
16:28
That seems like too much for me. So, I'm
16:30
going to have the pro come and do that
16:32
one. But,
16:33
>> that's something I'm interested in
16:34
learning because normal TIG is I enjoy
16:37
normal TIG, but lift TIG, it just seems
16:39
like it could be
16:41
>> want to try it. I mean, sure.
16:44
>> Give it a go.
16:45
>> Let's try a lift TIG.
16:48
>> All right. So, normally on a TIG
16:50
machine, you have either a a button or a
16:54
foot pedal that when you when you're
16:58
ready, that ar starts the arc and the
17:01
gas will automatically go through on a
17:03
lift TIG. However, I believe this sets
17:06
this right here. It's a little dial. Oh.
17:09
>> Oh, you heard it.
17:10
>> Just heard gas come through. But
17:12
>> oh wait, we might have to set up the
17:14
regulator.
17:15
>> The regulator, I believe, is off.
17:18
So yeah, regulator's off. So
17:28
>> Okay, there it goes.
17:30
>> Okay, let's try this. First time with
17:32
the lift. Yeah, we'll see how this goes.
17:43
Oh wow.
17:48
>> Oh wow.
17:49
>> That's wicked hot. Less gas. Yeah, we're
17:52
a little too No. No. Uh we're a little
17:54
too high on the voltage for thin sheet
17:57
metal like this. We're a little too
17:58
high.
17:59
>> But 16 would have been good.
18:00
>> Yeah.
18:03
But that definitely
18:06
we got penetrations all the way through.
18:08
>> That is beautiful.
18:11
That's actually really nice.
18:14
>> I think I'm going to like this better
18:16
than the actual TIGs because I don't
18:17
like that foot. No, that's the gas
18:19
though. It's a little high. Let me
18:23
try it with this piece I used did
18:26
earlier. here. Let's see if I can
18:34
Oh, yeah.
18:47
Oh, yeah. Look at that. Oh, wow. Yeah.
18:50
See, that's a much nicer weld. All
18:52
right. Okay. Show me the uh
18:54
>> Oh, we're Yeah, we're through all the
18:55
way on the back side. So, it's still a
18:57
little It's still a little hot.
18:58
>> Yeah, but that's what you Yeah, at least
19:00
one penetration.
19:00
>> And I think the gas might be a little
19:03
high still,
19:06
but
19:08
it's definitely working.
19:09
>> Try a couple pieces of the angle.
19:12
>> Yeah, those two.
19:27
Let me try and get the other side.
19:29
>> Yeah, just go for the other side.
19:30
>> All right. Good. I am good.
19:58
Oh, much better. Okay, much better. I
20:01
think we where the gas
20:05
is floating around 15.
20:09
>> So, I I think that might be
20:11
>> Wow.
20:12
>> right about where we want it. But look
20:13
at that. Great for thick stuff. And
20:18
you've got penetration just about
20:20
completely through. It's a little
20:22
probably about halfway to 3/4. So the
20:24
voltage at 14 right now, that might be
20:27
perfect for angle iron like this.
20:31
Me try that one more time. Let me adjust
20:33
this a little bit more. Let's go.
20:36
Now, how are you getting the arc? Are
20:37
you like scratching it or are you just
20:39
getting
20:39
>> I am getting very I'm getting just close
20:42
enough to where it just barely like it's
20:45
just off maybe a hair off the piece.
21:17
I really like this.
21:20
Holy
21:24
That's hot. But get a closeup of that.
21:29
>> I'm glad. I'll take it.
21:31
>> I really like this. This lift TIG, this
21:33
lift TIG is nice. Like sometimes the
21:36
foot pedal or the button gets clunky and
21:38
it doesn't work or it won't arc
21:40
correctly.
21:42
You don't have the control like you do
21:44
with the foot pedal like on the old
21:45
Miller where if you need to go a little
21:47
less, you can back off a little bit.
21:48
It's it's full on the entire time. But
21:53
>> once you play with it for a while,
21:54
you'll know what settings you need. Be
21:56
so much easier.
21:57
>> Yeah. I I could sue with this machine
21:59
for a week and really dial in the
22:01
settings for each thickness and figure
22:03
out where I want it for me.
22:06
And yeah. Yeah, that's beautiful. That
22:10
hot. Very hot. Hang on a minute. The
22:13
MIG, if you can use a hot glue gun, you
22:14
can use a MIG. This machine works
22:16
beautifully for both of those. Now, the
22:18
TIG, tell me about the TIG. What do you
22:20
think? So, I mean, looking at the all
22:21
the welds, you know, just screwing
22:23
around here with, you know, the stick
22:26
welding,
22:28
I mean,
22:29
>> yeah, you probably
22:29
>> stick weld stick welding is going to be
22:32
ugly of the uglier of the three anyway.
22:36
>> But even then, like the MIG,
22:38
the settings were off, but the MIG, it
22:41
it's solid. All the MIG welds, they're
22:43
solid. They're on there. This isn't
22:45
going like even though there's a a bit
22:47
of a gap like
22:48
>> Yeah, it wasn't flat. And I just didn't
22:50
want to mess with it.
22:51
>> That one cracked because of the TIG
22:52
welding that I put in here.
22:54
>> I hit that.
22:55
>> Look at that TIG.
22:57
>> That was beautiful.
22:58
>> Too much way too much gas.
23:00
>> Yeah, but that's all the way
23:01
>> and it was definitely too hot because it
23:03
went all the way through. And that's
23:05
This is what 8 inch steel.
23:08
Too much gas. Too hot. But it it's all
23:11
the way through and solid.
23:14
MIG the MIG welding. I mean this
23:18
this is just what is this? 18 gauge.
23:22
>> Yeah. Even you can't break it. Oh, he's
23:24
trying. Oh, he's trying.
23:26
>> I can bend it, but it it the weld didn't
23:28
break. It bent. The material bent.
23:31
>> The weld didn't break.
23:33
So, the weld is solid.
23:39
The material is bending. The weld is is
23:41
there. That That's what the MIG
23:44
the TIG. This was way too hot still for
23:48
18 gauge.
23:49
>> Yeah, the bad ain't going though.
23:50
>> I had the gas a little bit closer to
23:51
what it was supposed to be because
23:52
there's no holes or blowing through. But
23:55
like
23:59
again, the material is bending, not the
24:01
weld is still
24:02
>> not the weld. The weld is still there.
24:05
>> So,
24:07
and then I mean,
24:09
>> yeah, go ahead. Bend that.
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>> Yeah, I ain't bending that. But once you
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get once you get the settings dialed in
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for the the material you're working on,
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>> it's beautiful.
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>> That TIG is gorgeous. So, you're a lift
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TIG guy now, huh?
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>> I mean, I like TIG anyway, but I like
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that machine. I I like the TIG on that
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machine. All right. So, out of five
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stars, I'm giving it a 4.85.
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>> Oh, I'm giving it a five.
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>> From the mouth of babes,
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>> it works for all all three applications.
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It works. Just choose your application
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you want and go for it.
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>> Well, there you have it, folks. The
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Vivore MIG 270. Solid choice. I'm Mark
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Leaport from ProShaper Workshop in
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Charlton, Massachusetts. Thanks for
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watching.