Ullo!

[rickee]

Just joined as had major probs tonight (read all about them in the MIG forum)

Currently have a sick puppy Migmate 130 which I'm using to restore my 77 VW camper van.

Mostly its chassis work, suits me fine as no-one will ever have to see my ugly welds, but there is a fair amount of bodywork too. I'm working on the basis that by the time I get to the visible stuff the welds I'm producing ought to be both strong and neat.

Had a bit of a let down tonight with an attempt to repair my welder and ended up making it, well not worse, but certainly worse for wear and more frustrating, but I'll haev to stick with it as I'm broke.

Also discovering that the regulator on the Migmate works backwards. turn it to (-) to get gas flow.... explains some of my earlier work!

 

[malcolm]

Welcome again. Occurred to me if it's one of those disposable bottle regulators and is less than 10 years old it'll probably need to be screwed in to almost maximum for any reasonable gas flow. Oddly enough the old ones work like it says in the book. (I've acquired an old one for my random messing around with different gasses and it's great).

 

[rickee]

not sure, I know when I first got the machine (and hence did the setup by the book, the welds were much smoother than now, but I'm not sure how much of that was the fact that the wire was feeding smoother. I'll try a couple of test welds and see which way works better.