CRB
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I gave up a week or so ago after fitting a new bottle because nothing was going right, proper stomping off angry.
So today I started from scratch and found that somehow the wire was not in the groove and thus was not feeding properly
Pulled a few feet of wire off and set the tension with the bit I cut off, lovely. I then decided to check the gas flow, for no other reason than I thought I should.
This is where it gets interesting. The regulator was set to where my 'pre-accident by breaking the other one' was set around 10lpm to give 6lpm at the nozzle. I have a peashooter flow guage.
The pea shot up and then steadfastly returned to rest each time I pressed the trigger, so I turn the regulator up....and up.....and up until it is reading around 20lpm at which point I have a reading of 6-7lpm on the peashooter.
Lovely welding ensued.
?Is it unusual to have a regulator reading so far out? It is a new bottle so I will keep an eye on it, but the same regulator was on the previous bottle for a while.
So today I started from scratch and found that somehow the wire was not in the groove and thus was not feeding properly

This is where it gets interesting. The regulator was set to where my 'pre-accident by breaking the other one' was set around 10lpm to give 6lpm at the nozzle. I have a peashooter flow guage.
The pea shot up and then steadfastly returned to rest each time I pressed the trigger, so I turn the regulator up....and up.....and up until it is reading around 20lpm at which point I have a reading of 6-7lpm on the peashooter.
Lovely welding ensued.
?Is it unusual to have a regulator reading so far out? It is a new bottle so I will keep an eye on it, but the same regulator was on the previous bottle for a while.