Hi...
I was welding up a bracket for my garage today, attaching 1/8" thickness (3 mm) 1 1/4" angle end on to a piece of 1/4" (6 mm) flat stock. When mounted on the wall, the angle will stick straight out so I can hang a stepladder on it vertically. I noticed while welding that the arc would pause for an instant every 2 seconds or so, but it welded fine otherwise.
Has anyone else ever experienced this? Changing the wire speed didn't solve the problem. I fed the wire into the the air without welding for 3-4 seconds, and it seemed to feed smoothly with no hesitation. After the fact it occurred to me that the wire feed tension might be too low (I have it set to slip as soon as it hits my concrete floor); could that be it?
While we're on the subject of wire feed, my little 85 amp Dayton welder had a virtually silent wire feed. On my Clarke 180EN, it makes a kind of whine (in a pattern of tones which then repeat) while it's feeding. The sound is hard to describe; if it was a door, I'd say it needed oil. Is this normal? If not, any idea what causes it and how to fix it?
Many thanks, as always, to everyone for their advice!
I was welding up a bracket for my garage today, attaching 1/8" thickness (3 mm) 1 1/4" angle end on to a piece of 1/4" (6 mm) flat stock. When mounted on the wall, the angle will stick straight out so I can hang a stepladder on it vertically. I noticed while welding that the arc would pause for an instant every 2 seconds or so, but it welded fine otherwise.
Has anyone else ever experienced this? Changing the wire speed didn't solve the problem. I fed the wire into the the air without welding for 3-4 seconds, and it seemed to feed smoothly with no hesitation. After the fact it occurred to me that the wire feed tension might be too low (I have it set to slip as soon as it hits my concrete floor); could that be it?
While we're on the subject of wire feed, my little 85 amp Dayton welder had a virtually silent wire feed. On my Clarke 180EN, it makes a kind of whine (in a pattern of tones which then repeat) while it's feeding. The sound is hard to describe; if it was a door, I'd say it needed oil. Is this normal? If not, any idea what causes it and how to fix it?
Many thanks, as always, to everyone for their advice!
