So, I recently bought a new sip 130 with the synergy control and if you are using gasless you have to switch the polarity round.
I also have my old sip migmate 130, which I had used gasless wire on for a long time, but now wondering if the old sip doesn't have polarity switch should I have even been using gasless wire on that?
I often wondered if I was getting the best welds with the old mig, and only noticed how bad the quality of wire was between super 6 and sip wire were when I tried using super 6 on the new mig, so it was more the wire than anything, although the old mig seemed to handle the super 6 wire better than the new sip, and that was without any polarity settings. Seems the new sip mig is more sensitive to wire quality.
My other question concerns the wire feed roller on the old migmate, I recently discovered that feed rollers can have a V notch or knurled, I've never even noticed that you could have a V roller, and wondered what the reason for these were. What type of roller would the old migmate wirefeed have been originally? I'm keeping the old mig for nostalgia but curious more than anything about the polarity question on the old mig, if that was even a thing.
I'm actually not too happy with the new synergy mig as it doesn't go down low enough (30 amps) for very thin car steel welding, I'm getting good welds on thicker sections, but blowing quite a few holes more than I would like on thin panels, so ultimately looking at getting an autostar 160, which goes down to 10 amps. when buying a replacement welder I didn't really have anything to compare to (amp setting on my old machine was a bank of low/high min/med/max button bank) when buying and it was stated the synergy mig had low setting for thin car steel but obviously not low enough.
Thanks
Andrew
I also have my old sip migmate 130, which I had used gasless wire on for a long time, but now wondering if the old sip doesn't have polarity switch should I have even been using gasless wire on that?
I often wondered if I was getting the best welds with the old mig, and only noticed how bad the quality of wire was between super 6 and sip wire were when I tried using super 6 on the new mig, so it was more the wire than anything, although the old mig seemed to handle the super 6 wire better than the new sip, and that was without any polarity settings. Seems the new sip mig is more sensitive to wire quality.
My other question concerns the wire feed roller on the old migmate, I recently discovered that feed rollers can have a V notch or knurled, I've never even noticed that you could have a V roller, and wondered what the reason for these were. What type of roller would the old migmate wirefeed have been originally? I'm keeping the old mig for nostalgia but curious more than anything about the polarity question on the old mig, if that was even a thing.
I'm actually not too happy with the new synergy mig as it doesn't go down low enough (30 amps) for very thin car steel welding, I'm getting good welds on thicker sections, but blowing quite a few holes more than I would like on thin panels, so ultimately looking at getting an autostar 160, which goes down to 10 amps. when buying a replacement welder I didn't really have anything to compare to (amp setting on my old machine was a bank of low/high min/med/max button bank) when buying and it was stated the synergy mig had low setting for thin car steel but obviously not low enough.
Thanks
Andrew