Been fighting with my Millermatic 185....

Thing was putting up a hell of a fight yesterday. Welds fine when it is "turned up", at lower power/wire speed settings it is a whole different story. Noticed that the feed surges a bit every now and then....although it seems to be at a consistent pace. It happens once a revolution, when the spool is at the same spot. Will be taking it apart to see if I can find anything with the drive motor. When we were in AZ the welder sat outside, under a covered porch for a few years so I am sure there is a crap load of junk in it. Not to mention we had 2 male dogs that used to have a marking contest....one would hike a leg on something....he would walk away then the other one would come along and hike a leg....

Glad I saved that old spool of wire. No point in me un-spooling the good one into the trash while I am trying to figure this out. The liner is new but I very well may pick up another one for it. Or just put the old one back in it, there was nothing wrong with it. When I fought with it the last time I tried to use it some folks on the Miller forum suggested using the "right liner for the wire", old liner was for .035 wire and I was using .023 at that time. Spool I just purchased is a .023 as well. Talked to a fellow the lost time I was in one of the local welding suppliers, his claim was using the .035 line with .023 wire is not going to cause a problem. This guy was an old grizzled looking soul, who has been welding for a living for almost as long as I have been alive....not that it means much....