What cheap MiG welder?

no, otherwise Id of quoted you

 

Fair enough - it wasn't clear to me.

 

Reply to thread title without reading all the replies Youve gone from a spelling/grammar Nazi to a post reply Nazi

The alco is coming to pick up his scrap in the next few weeks, thought he could kill two bottles with one swig if you catch my drift

 

A grammar Nazi? The grammar Nazi, thank you.

 

sorry

 

Sip welders have feed control problems, have you done the wire feed control mod Trev?. I haven`t forgotten about the logs, maybe best to mail you a CD with all my stuff on it?.

I wouldn`t bother with the little bottles either, they`re a waste of time. Argoshield isn`t that bad in bigger bottles really.

 

Keith - you are absolutely right about the SIP welders - it is the wire feed mechanism that is the problem. It was crap from brand new. Because no amount of fiddling with the mechanism would produce a constant wire feed speed, neat welding was impossible. I have, however, discovered that it works a lot better with 0.8mm wire instead of 0.6mm. So I may be able to cope with it after all.

I did read about the SIP wire feed modification once but I confess I've never tried it. I'll do a search now to find out about it again. Thanks for the tip!

(CD of logs would be fantastic - could PayPal you some beer money.)

 

There was a bloke who made a new motor feed controller or similar? haven`t tried it myself either but worth a go before binning the SIP..

No need for beer money, it`s just finding the time to dig it off the laptop.

I aimed for a 12:1 afr on boost, with water injection active. On cruise you can lean it as far as it`ll go before missfire, I`ve done that on the GTO but the Golf was set for 14.7:1 in closed loop control. In hindsight I`d set closed loop to target 16:1 on cruise..

 

Whats wrong Mike?. I did a day of trackday hammering at Donnington with no issuse and 200 miles there and back..

 

Just lost me with that bit in this welding thread, was searching back through to see anything in here about it that's all i must have missed it sorry .

 

Fair do`s!.