had my welder nodded by skotl at the weekend. Not had a chance to try it out yet. Dying to have a shot. I will get covers off and get plenty of pics on. Massive thanks to scotl for doing it for me and he wouldn't accept anything for doing it. Genuine nice guy, if I can ever return the favour ley me know scott
It was a pleasure, Davie - happy to help like I said earlier, us SIPers need to stick together!
Plus, I took much more care with yours than I did with my own so that hopefully means the pictures will be better! Are you going to get a shot on it this weekend?
Mine's away for the weekend, so a trip to the steel suppliers this afternoon should result in a shiny new (though probably bent) welding table by the end of the weekend
finally got my hands on the welder. On high power set to min-mid-max its a total different machine. BUT on low power min-mid-max it still stutters had goose neck, wire liner and thanks to scotl the wire speed mod. Is this the smaller of the two transformers on the way out?
There's only one transformer (the smaller one is a choke) so while it's possible that one of the transformer windings or taps is duff, that seems extremely unlikely.
Have you taken the gearbox out and checked that the gears are ok and that it's still packed in grease?
Also - try adjusting the pot (small plastic box with a white plastic screw on it) on the wire control board - I recall that I turned it down a bit and so I may have turned it down too much so there's not a high enough voltage going to the motor a low speed.
Finally - does the motor still stutter when the wire feed is disconnected? Might be the motor. Oh - and the wire feed isn't too tight, is it?
Could be black or blue and you'll be able to see the white adjustment screw facing away out of the welder. Get a (plastic handled) tiny screwdriver and rotate it.
Slacken off the wire speed tension, turn the speed / power control on the front to its minimum setting, pull the trigger. While pulling the trigger, rotate the pot so that you can decrease the wire speed but not to the point where it's stuttering.
I do recall that I'd turned yours down because it was running too fast on high power, so you may need to increase the speed slightly.
Once you've adjusted it, check at all settings that it's acceptable.
what gas are you using? Sip 105 using argo light welds lovely, bit cold using co2 and quite sensitive to contaminants on the steel or the back of it. Dust left over from grinding off galv or paint can causes problems with the low 15 a arc i reckon