givemethebighammer
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| posted on 22/2/04 at 10:36 PM |
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OK try this for weird - MIG welder issue
I was using my mig yesterday and a problem developed. The wire seem to keep sticking and I couldn't keep a steady arc going. I decided to change
the tip to see if it had become slightly blocked and was causing the wire to drag.
Having removed the tip I found..... two wires ???? The length (about 1 metre) of extra wire pulled out easily. Question is where did it come from ? I
changed the reel of wire about three months back but made sure to remove the last of the old wire from the torch. Welder has been fine since then, up
until yesterday.
could have been in there for three months or could it be caused by something else ?
weird
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Hellfire
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| posted on 23/2/04 at 01:09 AM |
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is it just a ring of wire - if so could it have been constantly scarfing the feed wire and causing a sliver of v.thin swarf to collect?
Other than that...  dunno!
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givemethebighammer
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| posted on 23/2/04 at 10:35 PM |
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no evidence of any swarf, just an extra metre of wire no idea how it got in there unless the pixies in my garage have been up to their tricks again
(they only usually hide THE tools I happen to need at any point in time !)
?????????
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Noodle
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| posted on 23/2/04 at 10:39 PM |
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It's possessed. Exorcise it pronto.
Your sort make me sick
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givemethebighammer
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| posted on 23/2/04 at 10:55 PM |
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it might be objecting to me having switched to argoshield ? Perhaps it prefers the pure CO2 ?.
<welder speaking>
"Ha, Argosheild... thats for girls and lesser welders... give me the hard stuff, if you could weld properly, you wouldn't need Argosheild
anyway"
<bighammer speaking>
"shut the f**k up and stop popping and spluttering you bag of old sh*t"
<welder speaking>
yeah right, argosheild, I'll have the last laugh on this one !!!"
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JoelP
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| posted on 23/2/04 at 11:01 PM |
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i would recommend welding it* to the garage door. That will learn it
* the welder that is...
[Edited on 23/2/04 by JoelP]
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Peteff
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| posted on 23/2/04 at 11:48 PM |
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What kind of welder is it? My welder won't take two lots of wire at once. The wire feed leads into a nut with just enough room for the wire to
enter and the liner is fitted into it so it must be from your old reel.. It probably wasn't cut through properly at the end of the reel and
broke off as you pulled it out of the tip.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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givemethebighammer
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| posted on 24/2/04 at 01:06 PM |
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The welder is a 10 year old Sealy MIG mate 130, when I changed the reel (three months ago) I made sure I removed the last of the old wire from the
torch and fed the new wire into the liner. (The old reel ran out so I just pulled the leftover wire out of the liner from the torch end). Weird thing
is that the welder has been fine until last weekend. Maybe it was from the old reel, whatever, it's OK now, just interested in how it came to
get like that ? Still convinced I've got pixies in my garage !!!
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Alan B
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| posted on 24/2/04 at 01:13 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Noodle
It's possessed. Exorcise it pronto.
Which reminds me of the guy in the haunted house who didn't pay his exorcism bill.....
He got re-possessed....
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