Steve welder
Well-Known Member
The guy at my local welding supply asked me to stop by today as they had a small trade show
Live music and food. Wasn't much of a trade show more like a get together
They had a few welding booths set up were you could try the machine they were using and weld up some horse shoes welding arts and crafts nonsense using stick Mig or Tig
The guy I deal with asked me to make some sparks as his boss was there, so I got my shield and stuff and tried stick on one of these do it all machines
It was a 110/220 machine and they had it running on 110
They only had 1/8 7014 wire which I told them the 110 input didn't allow for enough of amperage, it ran the wire but cold.......Next I noticed they had the machine on straight polarity which I reversed
I had some 3/32 7018 in the car and so I used that.....I wanted to see how it would run at 110 volts on this machine
This machine had a hot start feature which I never saw on a small machine
I noticed the arc was a little hard to start but I found out later I had the hot start all the way down
I welded a half a horse shoe to a 3/8 strip of plate, the machine ran the 3/32 flat position hot ,so hot in fact I had to lower amps. I was impressed up until I tripped the circuit breaker.
We reset the breaker, the machine came on but even after some time wouldn't strike a arc
POS new fangled do it all welder that I must of overheated after welding a few rods
I must have went over the duty cycle even though I didnt weld all that much with it
Last I knew after BSing with some wisp of fresh air PYT who was a employee of the company for ten minutes the machine still didnt work
At that point I took my free tee shirt and left
Live music and food. Wasn't much of a trade show more like a get together
They had a few welding booths set up were you could try the machine they were using and weld up some horse shoes welding arts and crafts nonsense using stick Mig or Tig
The guy I deal with asked me to make some sparks as his boss was there, so I got my shield and stuff and tried stick on one of these do it all machines
It was a 110/220 machine and they had it running on 110
They only had 1/8 7014 wire which I told them the 110 input didn't allow for enough of amperage, it ran the wire but cold.......Next I noticed they had the machine on straight polarity which I reversed
I had some 3/32 7018 in the car and so I used that.....I wanted to see how it would run at 110 volts on this machine
This machine had a hot start feature which I never saw on a small machine
I noticed the arc was a little hard to start but I found out later I had the hot start all the way down
I welded a half a horse shoe to a 3/8 strip of plate, the machine ran the 3/32 flat position hot ,so hot in fact I had to lower amps. I was impressed up until I tripped the circuit breaker.
We reset the breaker, the machine came on but even after some time wouldn't strike a arc
POS new fangled do it all welder that I must of overheated after welding a few rods
I must have went over the duty cycle even though I didnt weld all that much with it
Last I knew after BSing with some wisp of fresh air PYT who was a employee of the company for ten minutes the machine still didnt work
At that point I took my free tee shirt and left