Yes that was one of the first things that popped up when I did a search for MIG steel liner!! I'll give it a go, mainly because I have a hardware shop in town that should have it in stock and I can try it out quicker than any other method.
Yes I think swapping the liner would make sense, it's not a job I've done before but it seems pretty straightforward and not expensive. Should I stay with metal or go back to a plastic liner?
Optima21, oddly enough I was just this second looking at that photo!! The idea of moving to a Dinze (is...
Hi, I have a Clarke 150TE Turbo MIG, bought second hand. It initially needed a bit of a clean up but it's served me very well and is a huge jump up from my old Aldi-sourced Wolf that I started with.
But lately I've noticed that my wire speed seems to be slowing down. Or rather I'm having to...
The welder lives in a dry garage but hasn't been used for about six months, so you could be on to something. The two connections on the gun and the earth clamp were quite badly corroded so I gave them a scrub as the first thing. The thick copper loops from the transformer and choke on to the...
It's all back together now, thanks for the pointer about insulating washers. Now I understand how to test across the pack rather than from ground, I can see 20 volts DC on the output side of the pack. The connectors do go to negative to the choke and positive to the torch.
I have a sticker on...
Ah, ok that makes more sense. I get between 20 and 30 volts AC from the inputs, as you say depending on the control switch. Each setting gives a different value.
I'll have to test the DC output again as I removed the diode pack. I did test the diode pack out of the welder, all I managed to...
The second transformer is about half the size of the big one, it's not the one sat on the PCB. It's on the bottom of the welder. It could be a choke though.
But checking the voltages on the rectifier seems to show a problem. Using the chassis as the ground reference, the two tags on the AC...
It's a similar PCB, although no variable resistor. The big relay works fine, I register 230VAC on one side of the switch, then when the trigger is pressed the same appears on the other side. That voltage makes it's way all the way round the transformer, and the various screw fittings on the...
I've just been out welding, and suddenly my welder stopped working. It's still got the cooling fan running, and the wire is still being pushed out (and gas flows). But it's not striking, almost like the earth is no good.
I've tested from the connecting posts inside the welder for continuity...