Using a shit welder will make you give up on welding. Spend $600 on a real welder and make good welds from day one. Been there done that. Trust me.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2015, at 12:53 PM, clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > If I can make welds that look and perform well enough with this garbage unit, > I will move up to a real gas shielded product for future projects. If I can > not keep from producing crap, I will give up on welding, having invested > little in the attempt > > clay > > >> On Jun 5, 2015, at 3:28 PM, Dimitri via Mercedes wrote: >> >> Unless you use shielding gas you will be unhappy with your results. I >> promise! >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jun 5, 2015, at 4:33 PM, clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> The wire is garbage, but it came free with the welder. May as well burn >>> through it. >>> >>> setting up feed speed is hit and miss for now. It does not want to feed as >>> slowly as the graph inside says I need it. There are two amperage speeds. >>> Lots and not that much. I could not get much speed or heat to get a good >>> bead >>> >>> clay >>> >>> On Jun 5, 2015, at 1:12 PM, fmiser via Mercedes wrote: >>> >>>>> clay wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I could not get a decent bead using the PC carcasses and was >>>>> getting a bunch of blow through. >>>> >>>> Thin sheet metal and gasless wirefeed is pretty tough. Set >>>> the wire feed and amperage low. And get some good wire. The >>>> HF wire is junk. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
