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angellonewolf
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first thing to ask is what are you welding to need gasless as its not that nice a weld and more for the heaver metal than car stuff
(it can be done but not nice )
(it can be done but not nice )
I just weld small metal art stuff, I want gassless as moving over to gas is expensive as a hobbyist.
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How are you welding the art now ?
Post some pix.
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might be worth just having a look at the price of gas depending on how much welding your going to do
if its art stuff im assuming its got to look good and gasless is dirty weld that will require a lot more cleaning up
there is a thread on price of gas im sure someone will post a linky
if its art stuff im assuming its got to look good and gasless is dirty weld that will require a lot more cleaning up
there is a thread on price of gas im sure someone will post a linky
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to swap to gassless you have to reverse the pos and neg cables there may be a person that done it on here but when doing so good tight connections and must be insulated from the case and every other components
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im not sure how old the super mig is the old sealey stuff used to be very good but the newer stuff is a bit carp
and do you realy need the extra 45 amps ?
and do you realy need the extra 45 amps ?
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Hello and welcome to the Forum.
As angellonewolf said, to run gasless fluxcore wire on the Sealey Supermig 195 you would have to reverse the polarity of the torch with respect to the workpiece clamp, making the torch negative rather than the standard positive. That task should be fairly simple, involving the bolted ( or spliced ) connections at the positive output of the bridge rectifier and the negative output wire from the inductor ( choke ). Some cables may need to be lengthened or replaced. You may want to consider adding panel-mounted Dinse sockets and plugs if you want to make the swap easily reversible.
This swap can be difficult on those welders where the torch trigger switch connects to the control board with just a single wire, and the second wire from the switch is connected by "borrowing" the heavy welding power cable inside the torch sleeve. However this model has a 2-wire torch switch, so that is not an issue.
There is a circuit diagram of the 195 courtesy of mike 109444 in Post #6 here:
As angellonewolf said, to run gasless fluxcore wire on the Sealey Supermig 195 you would have to reverse the polarity of the torch with respect to the workpiece clamp, making the torch negative rather than the standard positive. That task should be fairly simple, involving the bolted ( or spliced ) connections at the positive output of the bridge rectifier and the negative output wire from the inductor ( choke ). Some cables may need to be lengthened or replaced. You may want to consider adding panel-mounted Dinse sockets and plugs if you want to make the swap easily reversible.
This swap can be difficult on those welders where the torch trigger switch connects to the control board with just a single wire, and the second wire from the switch is connected by "borrowing" the heavy welding power cable inside the torch sleeve. However this model has a 2-wire torch switch, so that is not an issue.
There is a circuit diagram of the 195 courtesy of mike 109444 in Post #6 here:
Thank you for your help
