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When TIG was developed it was called Heliarc Helium is by far the preferred gas for TIG welding. It is largely unavailable & cost is prohibitive. A...

i bought a roll of dual sheild to mess around with and dont recall using a alot of gas flow. certainly not even close to 50cfh. probly like 20 or so....

Just bought mine sold my PM 300 a few years back regretted It but ya do what ya gotta do. Sold my pm255 to my nephew to make room for this. Got it...

Where meter located ? Dave

Wow congratulations and I’m sorry for your loss. Welcome to the fire simple get a bud that that does electrical and if you have space in the...

if the bead is humped and toes not wetting you can be sure its a bit cold. rather than autoset you can look at the chart in the door. if the material...

I agree 👍 Dave

Fluxcore needs more gas than solid wire. Fluxcore is faster than any other command type of welding Sorry about post did prof read My last post...

It's not like you have to keep a super B on the freeway with it... how pretty does a weld have to be to make good head?

Intermittent.

It's inside my shop, zero air current.

That cap is close enough, not critical. cg

That motor wouldn't have them. A/C motors though can have armature, commutator and brushes. Drills, angle grinders, sawzalls, skil saws, chop saws...

Those aren't worm tracks. Worm tracks can be fixed by lowering the voltage, but that's not the situation here. This looks like lack of gas coverage....

Were those problems intermittent or constant out of curiosity? Thanks

Doesn't that kind of crap just make you crazy. None of that should be beyond hand tight as tightness has zero effect on leakage and is meant to...

Trying to think about this a little, I keep walking past the vertical weld I made on the piece of scrap earlier. That's not a real different setup...

The dual shields are normally designed to drag the bead but run ok if you don't when in position but vertical up will be more straight in or a slight...

Flashing is what you did when you applied 12VDC to the rotor slip rings. I presume the service manual you refer to is manual SVM110A?

Ability to run 6010/6011 is all due to " Open circuit voltage ". or Higher open circuit voltage. Look it up it's a good read.

I had the ESAB 161 stl and it was a nice machine. The 180i blows it away in many ways. The hot start and arc force is way nicer. Bigger dinse...

I've had similar problems with 71M and 100% CO2. It was corrected by increasing the gas flow.

I wish I would have cleaned this before the pic. Was on a truck bed right at chest height as a guy stands and wanted decent appearance. I saw...

For what it's worth, the lowest I would go is probably 16 to 18 Guage if you are grinding and blending. There just doesn't seem to much left after...

5 minutes with a grinder, 5 with a sander and pour some paint on that deck and nop one would give that welding a second thought. Only thing wrong...

This is what I do. Its a rare day I run a second pass unless it was to fill a hairy crack, a stripper. II work on a nuke, never see a 10. Totally...

The other part put black paper over the voltage meter you read the meter with hood on. Makes life simpler. Dave