RWD3M
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Hi all,
Thought I'd share my little hiccup this morning.
I got into the workshop to continue welding up the wife's Mini and discovered the MIG wouldn't work. I had gas flow but no wire feed or power. A bit of a nuisance as it was working perfectly well on Tuesday afternoon. So I pulled the covers off and did a quick contuinuity check on the trigger switch, that was fine. I took the little circuit board behind the feed knob off to inspect it which also looked ok. I then quickly came to the conclusion that I'd got to the end of my ability to diagnose it.
Faced with the prospect of giving myself a crash course in TIG (I've had one for about 9 months but confession time, I still haven't got round to learning how to use it!) or buying a new MIG (my little Cebora has given fantastic service for probably 30 years) I had one last look and spotted this:
After making it look like this:
Normal service was resumed!
Weirdly, I really struggled to get the switch back into that position so how I managed to knock it like that, presumably when tidying up on Tuesday, I'll never know.
Still, that's £700 saved!
Oh, and apologies for actually doing some welding, won't happen again.
Thought I'd share my little hiccup this morning.
I got into the workshop to continue welding up the wife's Mini and discovered the MIG wouldn't work. I had gas flow but no wire feed or power. A bit of a nuisance as it was working perfectly well on Tuesday afternoon. So I pulled the covers off and did a quick contuinuity check on the trigger switch, that was fine. I took the little circuit board behind the feed knob off to inspect it which also looked ok. I then quickly came to the conclusion that I'd got to the end of my ability to diagnose it.
Faced with the prospect of giving myself a crash course in TIG (I've had one for about 9 months but confession time, I still haven't got round to learning how to use it!) or buying a new MIG (my little Cebora has given fantastic service for probably 30 years) I had one last look and spotted this:
After making it look like this:
Normal service was resumed!
Weirdly, I really struggled to get the switch back into that position so how I managed to knock it like that, presumably when tidying up on Tuesday, I'll never know.
Still, that's £700 saved!
Oh, and apologies for actually doing some welding, won't happen again.
