read the book that came with your welder. or google it.now y'all really have me confused.. being a novice welder myself... at work we have a VERY OLD miller wire feed... So my partner and I tried to hook it up to this new portable welder we just bought... the portable is set up for stick or wire feed... we hooked the positive lead from portable to the wire feed... turned the switch on portable to wire feed... used some flux core and tried welding... it was doing ok but had problems with the wire slipping... after further investigation we found it has .035 gears on it and we were using .030 wire... so we changed the wire to .035 and it worked better... still having minor slipping problems but not as bad....
my confusion comes on the polarity and the nozzle... your saying that we should use the Neg. to the wire feed ? or does it switch the polarity automatically when you turn the switch on the welder from stick to wire feed ?
it is set up for gas but we don't have a regulator yet for the bottle... so your saying there are different nozzles when switching from flux core to non? what's the difference in the nozzles ?
I did notice there is a lot of spatter with the flux core.. really hard to clean up in areas you can't reach with a grinder...
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Look it Up Their is everything you want to know about it online. Look up flux core.....MIG welding....Argon/co2...argon 75% / co2 25%well.. I say NEW... it's new to us.. company bought it from a rental company... so no literature with it
Got to borrow a friends welder today (220 MIG) and got half the firebox done. Just as I was starting to make some nice beads it ran out of wire. I should be able to finish the firebox and get it welded to the cook chamber/Scuba Tank next week. I am still looking for a small stainless beehive spring handle for the firebox door so if anyone knows of a supplier please let me know.
Do not use the Feldon's calculator for the CC to FB opening..... Use the circle calculator in my signature line...... DaveHi all, I am hung up doing the opening between the firebox and the cooking chamber . Aside from trying to draw straight lines on a curved surface I need to cut the opening in the tank and the firebox and want to make this tiny thing to actually cook.
1. The cook chamber is 21" x 6.750" I.D.
2.The Feldons bbq pit calculator says - 1.71" diameter half moon opening! and that seems really really small . Is there a rule of thumb for tank/firebox cutouts?
RibWiz do you have a photo of what a jig would look like? My dad used to make all his but being young I don't remember what he used to make them. My google search only turned up information on gun barrels!!!Behive handle , its actually called a barrrel spring.
Ive seen recently that they dont like links to other sites on here, so just go on Amazon and google spring handles or BBQ handles, the place with a River in the name is trustworthy, so is the one with the letter K, scroll on down because they come in many sizes, stainless or nickle plated. Some fit 3/8", 1/2" and 5/8" round rod. The longer ones are really sloppy.
Or....buy yourself some stainless round stock, and make a jig to wind them yourself, its not hard and you dont even need to add heat if you put a long enough crank on it.