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May 16th 2006, 17:18
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Are you welding sheetmetal to sheetmetal? or are you welding the floor pan to the tunnel? About what thickness are the materials you're welding?
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May 16th 2006, 19:16
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Hi
My welder has the same series of buttons, from the welders manual I worked out these settings. Make sure sure your shroud is in good condition, it can hamper the gas flow making for crap welds as if you wernt using gas at all. I also soak my wire in WD40, its a penetrating oil for rusted bolts, this stops the wire from rusting in the machine, rust will ruin the liner in the hose going to the gun. I also have a clothes peg hanging on the wire that grips cotton rag and wipes the wire before it goes into the wire feed drums. Steve
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STI powered 1303 in the works. Last edited by Steve C; May 16th 2006 at 19:20. Reason: I pasted the text for the settings and it lost its formating, the picture should make more sense.
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May 17th 2006, 15:34
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Hi Mikey,
At the moment I am trying ot patch up little holes in my floorpan. So I am using/welding sheetmetal to sheetmetal. Like I said, sometimes I get a perfect fuse of metals, but other times, without changing anything, I get no fuse at all. Just the little 'ball' that fuses to one 'side' of metal. Steve C, Thanks for the good tip/s! I shall go and soak my reel in WD40 now  I am being a bit daft here, me thinks. I looked at your posted pic, but for the life of me can not figue it out(forgive me, sometimes I can be a dumb@$$  ) I searched for my manual that came with the welder, but cant find it. And even if I did, I will have to figure out a table if there was one, because the Fench language is not fluent yet...  I can take a pic of the AMPs etc on the front of the welding machine if that will/can help shedding some light on it?Thanks fellas, I appreciate the input/help! :agree:
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May 17th 2006, 15:37
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PS. I wanted to mention that I live by the following motto:
"One day, I will save someone's life with WD40!" I ALWAYS have a small can of WD40 with me, especially when I ride with my motorcycle. Never leave without it! Did you know how well it works getting bug-splats off paintwork!?
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