I don't regret it when I was using mine - the only time you need big adjustment changes is when you go from thin to really 4mm plus but it's not like it takes ages to change
What I do like is the coarse and fine approach you've tried - that is clever
My issue which I will get back to one day...
OT but I bought Mrs BC a 2001 Mercedes SLK 230 Kompressor with a 6 speed manual box 6 years ago - it has to live outside and we don't live in the best area so a soft top was a no no (a magnet for ***** to run a knife thro). The running gear is still perfect the body is utterly shagged - rust...
I have two floplast ones on two soil pipes that terminate in the loft
Soil pipes used to vent thro the roof tiles but I go sick of repairing leaks so cut the soil pipes down - re-felted the roof and fitted air admitance valves on both the soil pipes
I kept them in the loft because it's easy...
I did too - made a massive difference to stability - if you breathed on the one turn pot it changed the wire speed - I was just interested in if Tray is still running the original
Oh I like the display - how coarse do you find the adjustment on the wire feed pot - this was what I struggled with in the early days as a small adjustment made a huge swing in terms of wire speed - not a problem welding thicker stuff but a complete pain when down at the bottom end welding up...
Ahhhhh absolutely true
As I said previously - once I sorted out the issues with the clarke I had to use the other week it worked really well and was utterly mod free
Some things deserve to die - Cosmo/SIP is top of my list
Life is too short to waste time resusitating something that is quite clearly dead
I had to rescue a hedgehog yesterday
We have three that come thro our garden every night - clay, bake and oven (how sad is it that we name them?)
The...
You know what that pretty much sums up my feelings
I got taught to weld at college - MIG TIG Gas and Arc - I could do the lot - the cosmo had me thinking I had learnt nothing and knew nothing
PS I'm a gin fan but there is not enough gin in the world that would make me want to try to improve my COSMO further
My portamig - I sold my soul for it but it was worth it - I can guess the settings needed to weld pretty much anything within it's capabilities and not need to tweak the settings...
Honestly and having slide down the slippery slope of a razor blade with my balls as brakes - bin the cosmo - chalk it down to experience and buy something that gives more pleasure than pain
Experience is what you get when you don't want it
Looking back over this thread today I think in my case I was chasing a fault that was already present in the welder when I bought it......
No matter what I did modification wise I had continual problems with wire speed variation when welding it would just increase speed as you welded and would...
No - some of the mods have benefits without drawbacks (wire feed brace) but most of the mods after that result in needing other mods to compensate it is a slippery slope and I fell down it (I have no intention of doing it again) and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone
I had to help a mate earlier...
Well I'll throw my opinion in to the ring - I'm very much the same - 20 yr old british hifi and cars with reg dates of 1972, 1979, 1985, 1991 plus a couple of rusty moderns (1998 and 2001 that rust faster than the older stuff)
If they are similar price or even if the portamig is a smidge more...
On my Portamig
for 0.6mm wire it's wire feed 8 and coarse 1 Fine 2
For 0.8mm wire it's wire feed 6 and coarse 1 Fine 1
I am aware that all Portamigs have different settings (it's not hard to find the sweet spot on your own machine and comparing with other peoples settings should only be ever...
Having finished welding up a rusty mini I found it far worse than 0.8 in terms of control
Now I will state that this is using my portamig so specific to that welder (and to my portamig as it seems others use different settings to me)
The arc was unstable even with argoshield light on the...
Agreed - where a complete panel is used
But if just a section is used as a repair the even if the original was spot welded the repair section must be continuously welded
Right now with no pictures it's hard to tell what was required