Re: New to me "JUNK $75.00 '97 ESAB Migmaster 250 " Let's get it working again... HEL
I am just skimming this thread and was looking at the pictures. Since I had a migmaster 250 for many years I will say it welds like butter, it will never drive the wire like your Rebel, turn the inductance all the way up on the Rebel to make the machines similar in thier arc characteristics. My migmaster always liked .035 wire and put down excellent looking/penetrating welds. I don't like welding over mill scale, your cut and etch does not look bad but keep in mind the Rebel will compensate voltage/WFS (Smig) as you weld, the migmaster won't, it's a tapped transformer, how you weld is a big part of it. Better make sure it has a 6/3 stranded power cable feeding it also with the proper 50 amp plug, it makes a differnce. I know of another MM250 a guy replaced the capacitors that he said were weak, I don't know how he knew this but said it made it weld like new? Maybe somebody has mentioned all this, but I did not read the entire thread, just wanted to throw that out there.
Last edited by Jawslandshark; 04-10-2018 at 06:56 PM.
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