wire melting away

[neil dawson]

Cheers for the reply the snooper, I've sussed it out now. I was trying it out on some really thin metal 0.8 in fact, but what I didn't realise was most of the weld was underneath. Also I was messing about with the wire speed a bit more on different thickness steel and I now know it needs to be spot on not just roughly. You definitely learn alot from practicing etc. Like I say I'm still only a newbie so I've got alot to learn, thank you all who replied. A pic of a weld on 3mm plate.

 

[Wallace]

Did you manage to fit the 5kg roll of wire ok?

 

[the snooper]

Cheers for the reply the snooper, I've sussed it out now. I was trying it out on some really thin metal 0.8 in fact, but what I didn't realise was most of the weld was underneath. Also I was messing about with the wire speed a bit more on different thickness steel and I now know it needs to be spot on not just roughly. You definitely learn alot from practicing etc. Like I say I'm still only a newbie so I've got alot to learn, thank you all who replied. A pic of a weld on 3mm plate.

you must have had the power up high as well then, good luck with the welding

 

[neil dawson]

The adapter came with the welder and fits ok ish. And yes I just wacked the speed up to max as well as the amperage thanks again folks

 

[Jan]

Don't forget that with the practice piece flat on the workbench a lot of the heat can be soaked away from the metal being stitched. Once there's air on both sides there's a good chance that your original settings will blow straight through. A few days ago I was working with some sub 1mm stuff that welded nicely on the lowest setting, but then blew through a second piece which I attempted to nail at right angle to the one on the bench while the latter didn't.