Been fighting with my Millermatic 185....

Have a hard time believing it is. Run some wire out the end of the gun.

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Cut it off at the 1 inch mark.....grab it with a pair of cutters and push it back into the gun

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on mine the wire will move back about 3/8 of an inch....

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give it a pull the other direction and it will move out to just about the 1 1/16" mark....


When it is turned up it welds like a champ. Turn it down and not so much. When I had the .035 wire in it the thing was an absolute pain in the a** to use. First time I went use it up here I replaced the liner with a new .035 one and bought a spool of .035 wire. If you tried to weld anything under 1/4" with you ended up with a mess. I bought the .023 liner and wire just as an experiment. Solved the problem on thicker stuff thanks to turning the feeder up. But now on anything thin it is more than a bit challenging....