Picked it up last night. Have not welded with fluxcore on about 15 yrs. Thought i might be able to use it instead of stick for outside installs. Probably could but o have no use for this process.The machine will weld. Produces great heat for upto 3/16. Took 4 minutes ro set up to weld. Must of that time was spent feeding the wire. It has a jog switch inside but that was discovered after I paid attention the instructions.I cannot believe i used to weld with this stuff. I could not seen the edges of the puddle. Lots of spatter and residue. The only issue with the welder is it pisses our occasionally. I thought if was because my contact tip was to close as it was shorting across spatter, but it happened with a 1 in space.I thought I could use for tacking steel for gang cutting, but nope. TooI will return it tomorrow. A couple welds. Veritcal up capping a 6013 bead on 1/8" used machine setting deom.the panel.The second is a.butt joining 2 1/16" steel tubes. I could see the puddle but not the edges of puddle.
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Reply:I am not trashing the machine. It weld well. I personally have no use no shielded flux core.Only issue i did have was the arc powering tapering/sputtering during welding. At some point during the long weld it would taper off them go back to normal. ??? Those are 6 inch continuous welds. I did not play with settingLast edited by tapwelder; 18 Hours Ago at 09:45 AM.
Reply:I take it the first use of fluxcore. I do not like 120volt welders But to get the best out of a to 120 volt you need to use E70-GS 0.030 wire. They say you can use other size but does not work well for most welders. Note the Chicago 170 is a 240 volt welder and does work great. Dave
Originally Posted by tapwelder
Picked it up last night. Have not welded with fluxcore on about 15 yrs. Thought i might be able to use it instead of stick for outside installs. Probably could but o have no use for this process.The machine will weld. Produces great heat for upto 3/16. Took 4 minutes ro set up to weld. Must of that time was spent feeding the wire. It has a jog switch inside but that was discovered after I paid attention the instructions.I cannot believe i used to weld with this stuff. I could not seen the edges of the puddle. Lots of spatter and residue. The only issue with the welder is it pisses our occasionally. I thought if was because my contact tip was to close as it was shorting across spatter, but it happened with a 1 in space.I thought I could use for tacking steel for gang cutting, but nope. TooI will return it tomorrow. A couple welds. Veritcal up capping a 6013 bead on 1/8" used machine setting deom.the panel.The second is a.butt joining 2 1/16" steel tubes. I could see the puddle but not the edges of puddle.
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Originally Posted by tapwelder
Picked it up last night. I will return it tomorrow. I could see the puddle but not the edges of puddle.
Reply:Thanks. I will try some lincoln stufff tonight
Reply:Oh my. Picked a spool of lincoln. Nr211. What a difference over the roll supplied with the machine. Thank for the tip. The dream is still alive...
Reply:I am glad 😊 the welder is working for you.Dave
Originally Posted by tapwelder
Oh my. Picked a spool of lincoln. Nr211. What a difference over the roll supplied with the machine. Thank for the tip. The dream is still alive...
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Originally Posted by tapwelder
Oh my. Picked a spool of lincoln. Nr211. What a difference over the roll supplied with the machine. Thank for the tip. The dream is still alive...
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