Hi folks
I'm welding another Daimler, a 1979 example. Had an awful lot of trouble with the welder, another eBay purchase of mine. Found that the wire kept on getting tangled up downstream of the wire feed rollers: wire gets stuck up torch, feed rollers kept on feeding, wire bunch up and tangle. Each time this happened I found I have to scrap some 4m of good wire and re-feed again! That's until I found this wonderful tip:
Tighten wire feed roller just enough to feed wire. The key is to remember to give it enough slip so forced wire feed, resulting in bunching up into a tangle, is avoided.
Bend the torch flex as well so that adequate wire feed is attainable with the minimum of grip at the rollers. We don't want to have intermittent sire feed (frustrating) or want to have too much forced feed that the wire bunches and tangles up (more frustrating and wastage).
teddykan
I'm welding another Daimler, a 1979 example. Had an awful lot of trouble with the welder, another eBay purchase of mine. Found that the wire kept on getting tangled up downstream of the wire feed rollers: wire gets stuck up torch, feed rollers kept on feeding, wire bunch up and tangle. Each time this happened I found I have to scrap some 4m of good wire and re-feed again! That's until I found this wonderful tip:
Tighten wire feed roller just enough to feed wire. The key is to remember to give it enough slip so forced wire feed, resulting in bunching up into a tangle, is avoided.
Bend the torch flex as well so that adequate wire feed is attainable with the minimum of grip at the rollers. We don't want to have intermittent sire feed (frustrating) or want to have too much forced feed that the wire bunches and tangles up (more frustrating and wastage).
teddykan