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Well I bought a few parts and got some 240 run to the machine. instead of piggy backing a new 6-50 outlet I made a adaptive extension cord using about 15' of some 4/8 awg I had in the shop, a 10-50p male plug and a 6-50R female outlet. I went this way because as I said the cord on the welder is like 4'-5' long (points off for that). I set the machine up for the highest recommended setting for 0.035 flux core wire. I ran a 3/13 fillet on 3/16 it ran good, a little hot but good. next I stacked a couple 3/8 on the fillet again nice welds. So I moved on to a few flat stringers and found the welds not that nice. The issue they were way hot, burnt looking with no fish scale look. kicked the settings down to the recommended setting for 1/8 and again good looking welds. Why the difference in what heat was needed you ask? well the back side of the fillet was already welded on yesterday so it had a bigger heat sink.
I stopped there because mommas car was in and I did not want to make a lot of dust and fumes.
Looking at this I say the machine can stay a little longer for more testing. (I'm not that easy to convince) I would say if you are going to pull the trigger in the next few days at least look at this machine, hey you can send it back if it don't work out. As of now I am liking this machine but more needs to be done before I say it can stay. this is a very simple machine the only bells and whistles being dual power and a rapid wire feed button for feeding new wire into the gun.
Well here are some shots of the machine and todays wells. I would say I do not think my welds would get much better no matter what machine I was on. (I don't do much wire feeding other than at home on the old Lincoln SP-125 plus 120V welder. I left the craters so that you guys can see that it is burning in good.
First is a shot of the machine.
These are the welds I was a little hot and could use a little fine tune on the wire for spatter control. but not to bad as there is at least 4 passes there on the fillet. Now what looks like small craters or inclusion on the bottom of the lower fillet weld is not. It is just some odd little dip playing with the light.
I stopped there because mommas car was in and I did not want to make a lot of dust and fumes.
Looking at this I say the machine can stay a little longer for more testing. (I'm not that easy to convince) I would say if you are going to pull the trigger in the next few days at least look at this machine, hey you can send it back if it don't work out. As of now I am liking this machine but more needs to be done before I say it can stay. this is a very simple machine the only bells and whistles being dual power and a rapid wire feed button for feeding new wire into the gun.
Well here are some shots of the machine and todays wells. I would say I do not think my welds would get much better no matter what machine I was on. (I don't do much wire feeding other than at home on the old Lincoln SP-125 plus 120V welder. I left the craters so that you guys can see that it is burning in good.
First is a shot of the machine.
These are the welds I was a little hot and could use a little fine tune on the wire for spatter control. but not to bad as there is at least 4 passes there on the fillet. Now what looks like small craters or inclusion on the bottom of the lower fillet weld is not. It is just some odd little dip playing with the light.
