Right to start at the beginning, I am restoring a Mini and having no previous welding experience I got a mate, whos a welder, to teach me.
I was using a SIP Migmate and CO2, which was pants, so upgraded to a Parweld 161 from Weldequip which is ace but needed to use my CO2 bottle up before moving to Argon5.
All was going well with the CO2 until it ran out so I went to pick up a 10L bottle of Argon yesterday, rigged it up and now I can't get it set up correctly.
Before, with CO2, I was using power setting 2 and wire feed 2 and that worked perfectly but on these settings using the Argon it doesnt penetrate and the weld just sits on top of the metal, I tried going up to power setting 3 but that didnt help much.
Is there anything any of you guys can advise as I really have no clue what to do.
cheers Graham
I was using a SIP Migmate and CO2, which was pants, so upgraded to a Parweld 161 from Weldequip which is ace but needed to use my CO2 bottle up before moving to Argon5.
All was going well with the CO2 until it ran out so I went to pick up a 10L bottle of Argon yesterday, rigged it up and now I can't get it set up correctly.
Before, with CO2, I was using power setting 2 and wire feed 2 and that worked perfectly but on these settings using the Argon it doesnt penetrate and the weld just sits on top of the metal, I tried going up to power setting 3 but that didnt help much.
Is there anything any of you guys can advise as I really have no clue what to do.
cheers Graham