Hi all.
I have a Portamig 185 I have owned for some years, but it gets very little use.
Yesterday I thought I would repair some fire tongs whose handle had broken off.
Set up my folding welding table and clamped the broken parts to it. Can't have set up properly as I got a very messy weld. When I tried to clean ut up with an angle grinder to have another go, jt fell apart. My welder is connected direct to a 16A MCB on my garage's distribution board and a couple of times the welder tripped this out, and shut off the welder although it reset ok.
Today, on trying another go, I found that, although the welder started up ok, it wouldn't feed wire(0.6mm) or strike an arc, nada. Disaster. Quick check showed the wire reel was ok and the welder switched on and the fan worked, but nothing else. Quick look in the works told me nothing, so I switched off and packed up.
Before I arrange to take it to a local welding supplies shop for repair, any ideas why it refused to feed or arc? The welder has a Parweld Eurotorch, which normally works fine, but today squeezing the trigger did nothing, no wire, no gas coming out of the shroud.
Sounds expensive to me.
All suggestions, solutions, gratefully received.
Thanks guys.
I have a Portamig 185 I have owned for some years, but it gets very little use.
Yesterday I thought I would repair some fire tongs whose handle had broken off.
Set up my folding welding table and clamped the broken parts to it. Can't have set up properly as I got a very messy weld. When I tried to clean ut up with an angle grinder to have another go, jt fell apart. My welder is connected direct to a 16A MCB on my garage's distribution board and a couple of times the welder tripped this out, and shut off the welder although it reset ok.
Today, on trying another go, I found that, although the welder started up ok, it wouldn't feed wire(0.6mm) or strike an arc, nada. Disaster. Quick check showed the wire reel was ok and the welder switched on and the fan worked, but nothing else. Quick look in the works told me nothing, so I switched off and packed up.
Before I arrange to take it to a local welding supplies shop for repair, any ideas why it refused to feed or arc? The welder has a Parweld Eurotorch, which normally works fine, but today squeezing the trigger did nothing, no wire, no gas coming out of the shroud.
Sounds expensive to me.
All suggestions, solutions, gratefully received.
Thanks guys.