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I've been using ebay tig cups and collets, no problems unless I drop the torch and break them.
I get my tungstens from Welding City on Ebay. I have no complaints, but I also have no experience with the high $ brand name stuff either.
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I got some torch parts from welding city this week.... never had a problem before with their stuff, but the stuff I just got is gimpy. The collet bodies seem to be poorly machined - the cups can cross-thread and when threaded on straight the electrode is not centered in the cup. It seems the OD of the cup threads on the collet body are undersized.
Not a big deal since the low-end stuff costs so little, but this made me reconsider a chinesium torch.
Also, i found if you order from welding city website the prices are a bit lower, presumably because they don't pay commissions to amazon/ebay.