Having used Esab at work and having a marine welding qualification, I am pretty sure that the sills and body repairs I did over the years nothing ever fell apart including a building.
Tinkering with this welder with a friend it has a euro torch conversion and was known to be a devil from day one.
It appears
1) insufficient tension on feed as some sort of distortion of plastic from what is visible, gently used a clamp as no spare thread to tension- couldn't find a reasonable metal wire feed online
2) original contactor replaced as it died years ago
3) tidy euro torch conversion
4) erratic wire feed speed on motor causes pulsing
Conclusion it is a bit of a turd from the chat it appears it should run 0.8 as marked and has swl 360 Gun/lance fitted.
Plan to try motor on a separate supply as it's disappointing a earlier model seemed great and this is a bag of crap it would seem along with a engine crane of same vintage full of swarf.
Any pointers before it gets a big hammer towards it as good money after bad so far
Tinkering with this welder with a friend it has a euro torch conversion and was known to be a devil from day one.
It appears
1) insufficient tension on feed as some sort of distortion of plastic from what is visible, gently used a clamp as no spare thread to tension- couldn't find a reasonable metal wire feed online
2) original contactor replaced as it died years ago
3) tidy euro torch conversion
4) erratic wire feed speed on motor causes pulsing
Conclusion it is a bit of a turd from the chat it appears it should run 0.8 as marked and has swl 360 Gun/lance fitted.
Plan to try motor on a separate supply as it's disappointing a earlier model seemed great and this is a bag of crap it would seem along with a engine crane of same vintage full of swarf.
Any pointers before it gets a big hammer towards it as good money after bad so far