welder acting up.. need help fast
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welder acting up.. need help fast
tenfrontier
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The gas could be leaking from where your hose that carries the gas and wire goes inside of your welder. There should be a connection next to the wire feeder. Make sure the connection is tight.
LittleShopLackey
+1y
yah make sure you are getting gas all the way at the tip. last time saliba's Lincoln did that it was leaking where the connection at the box is, there were 2 O-rings... one of which was not sealing off.
Dejavu
+1y
im welding outside but theres not breeze or antyhing
Gangsta Boogie
+1y
check all the connections on the gun to see that they are seated and the orings are not damaged, check where the regulator hooks up to the welder, pull off the nozzle and check to see that the holes where the gas comes out are clean and free of crap. also
make sure the nozzle is not to short. sometimes if you have a dirty tip and weld for a while spatter will make an electrical short between the electrode and nozzle, when this happens everytime you weld and the nozzle touches grounded metal it will spark and eventually chew the nozzle up making it shorter causing insufficiant gas flow. however, the fact that your welding on a bed means that unless you ground the body metal down to virgin steel your welding over, paint, primer, and zinc all 3 will cause the metal to get hidious pock marks and look lumpy instead of nice and fluid. when your trouble shooting get a section of mild steel that was never painted, galvinized, dirty, and has never had anything to do with being on a car, fence, plumbing or gas pipe, a new untouched steel plate is what you need. your welds will always be shit if you are welding over shit.
make sure the nozzle is not to short. sometimes if you have a dirty tip and weld for a while spatter will make an electrical short between the electrode and nozzle, when this happens everytime you weld and the nozzle touches grounded metal it will spark and eventually chew the nozzle up making it shorter causing insufficiant gas flow. however, the fact that your welding on a bed means that unless you ground the body metal down to virgin steel your welding over, paint, primer, and zinc all 3 will cause the metal to get hidious pock marks and look lumpy instead of nice and fluid. when your trouble shooting get a section of mild steel that was never painted, galvinized, dirty, and has never had anything to do with being on a car, fence, plumbing or gas pipe, a new untouched steel plate is what you need. your welds will always be shit if you are welding over shit.
Dejavu
+1y
well... i did try to weld on somethign else that had no paint or anything on it ever..............and it was bare metal clean as could be .......still did the same thing. and i surely did grind everything to be welded down to baremetal.
pootytang
+1y
perosity is caused by lack of gas
Spngr311
+1y
Originally posted by tenfrontier
The gas could be leaking from where your hose that carries the gas and wire goes inside of your welder. There should be a connection next to the wire feeder. Make sure the connection is tight.
I had this problem with a Lincoln Welder. We got it new, and I didn't have it connected all the way and all my welds (and the welds of the professional welder) came out like crap. No gas was reaching the end because it wasn't connected all the way and when the wire would feed, it pushed it out enough to not allow the gas to feed correctly.
The gas could be leaking from where your hose that carries the gas and wire goes inside of your welder. There should be a connection next to the wire feeder. Make sure the connection is tight.
I had this problem with a Lincoln Welder. We got it new, and I didn't have it connected all the way and all my welds (and the welds of the professional welder) came out like crap. No gas was reaching the end because it wasn't connected all the way and when the wire would feed, it pushed it out enough to not allow the gas to feed correctly.
whynotfab
+1y
that only really happens to me if the wind blows, or I ran out of gas.. most everything i'd check or try has been mentioned already. any update?
jaredmxg
+1y
well what i would do obviously if you cant hear it out of the tip than its not coming out cause its usually lound so take your connection of the back of the welder make sure the tube from the reluator is flowing, check your lead maby its got a burn in it or some kind of hole. none of the above, than you are screwed. or I really just dont know
hope that helps a bit
hope that helps a bit