When you have it all set up. get some scrap, clean it up and practice practice, practice. When you get fed up, practice some more. That's what I'm still doing.
you are right thinking it's cheaper with gasless wire. But results will be different for both as already explained. So you will still need to practice on both.Should i practice with the flux core or with the gas? I'm thinking it's cheaper to practice with flux core?
Find a local engineering company or fabricator and ask if you can raid their scrap bin. I have found such a company and donate to the "Bun Fund" when I visit, keeps them happy and I get all the off cuts I need to practice on.
Find a local engineering company or fabricator and ask if you can raid their scrap bin. I have found such a company and donate to the "Bun Fund" when I visit, keeps them happy and I get all the off cuts I need to practice on.
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Welcome to the Forum.
I also have an Uptime MIG160 welder. There is a review here:
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum...igbt-160-amp-mig-welder-mma-euro-torch.88278/
The welder arrived set up for solid wire + gas. The internal wire covered with white heatproof sleeving is the feed in to the Euro torch socket. It was bolted to the lower ( Positive ) Dinse socket. The Earth lead would then be plugged in to the upper ( Negative ) socket.
To convert to gasless wire, the internal white cable has to be moved to the upper ( Negative ) socket, and the Dinse plug on the Earth clamp lead plugged in to the lower ( Positive ) socket on the front panel.
I have used both solid .8mm wire with gas and flux-cored gasless 0.9mm wire with the same 0.8mm tip and roller, it seems to feed OK for both.
Flux-cored gasless wire is best for welding outside ( where shielding gas may get blown away by wind ) and some people find it makes overhead welding easier.
there are 3 wires not 2.
Great.That's right, the manual differs from the machine. The two thick black wires are the actual power, supplied from the main inverter board, and bolted to the rear of the two Dinse sockets. The upper black cable is negative, the lower one is positive, and the Dinse sockets are labelled on the front panel in that way.
As shipped, the setup is for solid wire plus gas, and so the white wire to the Euro socket picks up from the positive.
I think i'm getting it.