- Location
- Colorado
Welp, as the title suggests... it ain’t rocket science! LOL but it’s different then my last setup... unfortunately I had to sell my Lincoln power mig in order to move to CO... but alas I picked up this little hottie from a pawn shop. Nothing fancy, mind you- but it’ll work for now. It’s a harbor freight special- but one of the stronger ones from what I’ve seen. Chicago electric mig 180. Got er setup for flux cored .035 with Lincoln NP211 wire. According to the chart it can’t even weld 1/4”, and 3/16ths only at the max setting (F). It has wire feed speed in 1-10 and voltage in A-F. SO, of course I want to weld 1/4” brackets to my axle, duh! But after welding a 3/16th axle truss on... I’m getting confused.
Wire speed is a hair past 6, and power is at B! Call me crazy but at this setting I still got some under cut and penetration is borderline too hot!
I’ll share some pics for reference... but I know this much, slag you drag, 45ish degree work angle, keep the tip closer to the puddle, and less is better as far as puddle manipulation. Learned most of that the hard way of course. No cursive e or anything fancy to emulate stacks of dimes.
Should I crank her all the way to F, solely because I’m doing 1/4”?
Unfortunately I don’t have any extra 1/4” material to play on- and the metal yard has shut it’s doors afaik. Doubt I will be blowing through the axle or anything... being used to digital volts and wire speeds in inches per second has me second guessing myself. From what I’ve read flux runs hotter inherently too right?
Wire speed is a hair past 6, and power is at B! Call me crazy but at this setting I still got some under cut and penetration is borderline too hot!
I’ll share some pics for reference... but I know this much, slag you drag, 45ish degree work angle, keep the tip closer to the puddle, and less is better as far as puddle manipulation. Learned most of that the hard way of course. No cursive e or anything fancy to emulate stacks of dimes.
Should I crank her all the way to F, solely because I’m doing 1/4”?
Unfortunately I don’t have any extra 1/4” material to play on- and the metal yard has shut it’s doors afaik. Doubt I will be blowing through the axle or anything... being used to digital volts and wire speeds in inches per second has me second guessing myself. From what I’ve read flux runs hotter inherently too right?