Now have my first MIG machine ... about to do the feed motor PSU mods listed elsewhere but before starting to play in earnest noticed that the gun tip and wire roller are 0.8mm and the remains of a reel already loaded is labelled 0.9mm. It seems to mechanically feed ok through the gun under power). I checked the 0.9 wire as being actually 0.9 and not 0.8, and then passed it through a spare, ostensibly new, 0.8 tip and it felt a worryingly slack fit. Instinctively I'd expect a smaller wire to maybe work through a larger tip hole but not the reverse. Can 0.9 successfully work through 0.8 please?
By now I'd already bought in a 1kg reel of 0.9 before spotting this...... and thoughts turned to maybe changing the roller wheel or maybe simply reversing it if it happened to be a dual 0.9/0.8. No such luck, it is 0.8 and 0.6.
The OSLV wire feeder drive shaft in the pic is 10mm diam with a Woodruff keyway but the 30mm diam wheel has been secured with a cross drilled hex screw which is nicely butchering the shaft keyway. It clearly didnt leave the factory with that wheel! What wire size(s) were stock fitment pse? Was it even a reversible wheel?
I certainly need to clean up the keyway channel and find a suitable key and a keyed wheel but also possibly a depth piece to keep it aligned with the liner and prevent it working back toward the circlip in the drive shaft at the back? The intended shaft front fixing seems be by tapped hole and M4 machine screw/washer. (Seems a pretty std scheme on other SIP pics here.)
So the question is whether to standardise in future on 0.8mm and look for a keyed 30mm/10mm/0.8 wheel and run the 0.9mm to hand through it or actually go for a 0.9 wheel? Or two separate wheels?
( Shenzen doesn't seem to be awash with too many options for this set of dims..... and certainly no depth pieces.... )
I haven't found a picture of an Autoplus 150 anywhere so I'm not sure if it is all original. The gun is a Sealey Eurotorch and the earth lead is detachable and not hardwired. ( It might still be considered "bell wire" sized by some here) I think the Italian OSLV motor assy, which looks "beefier" than some other SIP units shown here, is original but maybe wrong?
By now I'd already bought in a 1kg reel of 0.9 before spotting this...... and thoughts turned to maybe changing the roller wheel or maybe simply reversing it if it happened to be a dual 0.9/0.8. No such luck, it is 0.8 and 0.6.
The OSLV wire feeder drive shaft in the pic is 10mm diam with a Woodruff keyway but the 30mm diam wheel has been secured with a cross drilled hex screw which is nicely butchering the shaft keyway. It clearly didnt leave the factory with that wheel! What wire size(s) were stock fitment pse? Was it even a reversible wheel?
I certainly need to clean up the keyway channel and find a suitable key and a keyed wheel but also possibly a depth piece to keep it aligned with the liner and prevent it working back toward the circlip in the drive shaft at the back? The intended shaft front fixing seems be by tapped hole and M4 machine screw/washer. (Seems a pretty std scheme on other SIP pics here.)
So the question is whether to standardise in future on 0.8mm and look for a keyed 30mm/10mm/0.8 wheel and run the 0.9mm to hand through it or actually go for a 0.9 wheel? Or two separate wheels?
( Shenzen doesn't seem to be awash with too many options for this set of dims..... and certainly no depth pieces.... )
I haven't found a picture of an Autoplus 150 anywhere so I'm not sure if it is all original. The gun is a Sealey Eurotorch and the earth lead is detachable and not hardwired. ( It might still be considered "bell wire" sized by some here) I think the Italian OSLV motor assy, which looks "beefier" than some other SIP units shown here, is original but maybe wrong?