I'm wondering if my little 125 LINCOLN 120 volt will weld 1/4" stock to 1/8 "

[rbcsaver]

Re: I'm wondering if my little 125 LINCOLN 120 volt will weld 1/4" stock to 1/8 "

This is what I did with my Lincoln 125, last weekend. It was taxed at 1/2", but I got
it done.
regards,
Steve

 

[patrick_g]

Re: I'm wondering if my little 125 LINCOLN 120 volt will weld 1/4" stock to 1/8 "

I weld 1/4 with my weld-pac 100. I run it till the thermal overload trips. Then take a break and let me and it cool.

Ditto with my Lincoln Weld Pak 100... until it died. Took over 10 years of abuse but finally blew the diodes out. Will replae them and be ready to go again soon.

Patrick

 

[memman]

Re: I'm wondering if my little 125 LINCOLN 120 volt will weld 1/4" stock to 1/8 "

Use 4" grinder to grind your welding surfaces to a v. Then fill with weld. Whenever possible, weld both sides of the joint. Remember to take it to a professional if it's something that someone could get hurt if the weld broke. If you'll only be out some bent steel & some time, then let'r have it.

 

[Transit]

Re: I'm wondering if my little 125 LINCOLN 120 volt will weld 1/4" stock to 1/8 "

I weld 1/4 with my weld-pac 100. I run it till the thermal overload trips. Then take a break and let me and it cool.

Running till the overheat trips will shorten the life of the unit. Try using a cooking timer to ring before the trip. :thumbsup:

 

[not2old]

Re: I'm wondering if my little 125 LINCOLN 120 volt will weld 1/4" stock to 1/8 "

"Yes" that is a mini hack saw I'm usin' to split the metal down...for the boom to ride in.......I could use my 4" grinder slap on a 1/8" thickness 4" cuttin' disc..... but it makes too many sparks and cuts out too much metal.

<<<<>>>Thanks in advance<<<<>>>> __________________AMPA<<<<<>>>>

You can get discs thinner than 1/8". Using thinner discs, you will cut much faster, remove less metal, make less sparks, and have more control. I almost never use the thicker ones anymore.

 

[oc3crwler]

Re: I'm wondering if my little 125 LINCOLN 120 volt will weld 1/4" stock to 1/8 "

Running till the overheat trips will shorten the life of the unit. Try using a cooking timer to ring before the trip. :thumbsup:

Been doing this for over 10 years. This thing has been rained on, droped and dragged by a tractor. I wonder what will kill it. God knows Ive been trying.

 

[ampa]

Re: I'm wondering if my little 125 LINCOLN 120 volt will weld 1/4" stock to 1/8 "

Things/items have been changed/returned since I first posted this welding question.....gone is the single acting Myers ram..enter the single double acting ram ..as well as the top pc of 1-1/2"x1-1/2" thin wall sqauare tubing that was gonna' be the top boom for the hoist type snowplough lift which uses a linked length of chain.. old thin wall piece replaced with a longer and thicker walled metal I'm guessin' 1/8 or even better..I have a whole bach of new pic's... yes I did get to weld the 2"x2" sqauare tubing somewhat.... at first I had the wire feed set a in the area of #8..."WOW"..made quite a mess and a mountain of filler wire....after I turned it down to about #2. speed..the outlook was more like it should be...and I became more interested on continuing on.

seems no matter how many video's I've watched... very little or nothin' is ever mentioned about this wire feed speed....what's a good/proper settin' to use?..to me this is very important and maybe for takin longer to do this maybe this is the speed I should use for now....(comments are welcome) ..as was mentioned above..I also like to make quite certain the neg.- is set on the positive + for DC and the pos. set on neg -for DC. operation only....I don't know if I had it set on the highest setting or not....it was already set to E so I just left it there....It seemed to be putting out a good strong arc....and I was able to see the much mentioned famous talked about puddle of molton steel....able to melt the wire fill into it and did try and run a fair lookin' bead....it wasn't fair.... but wasn't allthat bad..... do I have to just run the nozzle in a straight steady line keeping up or within the speed of the wire speed ?.... resaults still nothin' to write home about.

I'm so much more confident I can now do this myself...lets face it... I bought it about 4 months ago it's been sittin since..so I took it wiped off 4 months of cobwebs.... to be honest..I'm not real great with gas welding (oxo/acc) neither.... but I can half (apple) braze a pc of metal together that is almost impossible to break apart... please! don't ask me how I know this....I'll never try breakin' apart what I've done with this little 120 volt. 125 Lincoln so far....it has a very powerful arc to it and the steady sizzle I can hear quite well.

I'm quite happy with it...even though all I hear about.... are how good the BLUE color Miller welders are over other brands....which one is better? or is this just a prefference over another persons oppinion or likes....I get those pic's on when I get the time...for now I must thank everyone for their input on my questions here...and I really appreciate all the needed information...you gave me the incouragement....and I'll never forget you guys ever.

I really like to thank all you fellows from TBN here for all your patience to help give me the incouragement that it could be done usin' this little 120 volt 125 amp Lincoln wire feed welder....knowing all this gave me the confidence that I had the correct machine to do the job...and that the rest was up to me....I have no intentions of getting anyone to do my welding.....it's great to know you don't have to drive then depend on someone bein' able to do it right then and now....the last time I went to this friend of mine who builds trailers both his welders were down....so I had to take it to someone else...

the qaulity of this other persons welds were not much better than mine were this first time round......I'll call him the (other person) as I really didn't know him personally...all I know is... that this place was supposed to be a welding shop and he was supposed to employed as a welder.....and was incharge at the time...... he also told me I'd have to leave the sqauare metal pieces cause he was really too busy..... and come back for it the next day. busy my eye...sitting there drinking a coffee and smokiing a cigarette.. when I did go pick it up it wasn't welded the way I wanted.....I brought it home then threw it in my scrap metal box...in fact I just recently used part of this 2"x2" sqauare tubing....cut off what he welded and kept the unwelded section... one of my the pics shows the bottom end of the lift cylinder/ram attached to it......take care.....APMA<> :thumbsup:

 

[gauthier]

Re: I'm wondering if my little 125 LINCOLN 120 volt will weld 1/4" stock to 1/8 "

On a mig,the wire speed is the amps,you set the voltage and match the amps to that[or match your voltage to wire speed],course machines vary in the way the amps and volts are set,,but you got to match your wire size to amps/volts to get it to run right,little 110[never used one],but bet you would have to turn voltage way up and match wire speed to that to weld on thicker stuff.[you need to turn both down for thinner stuff]

Bare wire mig with co2 shielding if I remember right is about 120 amps and 19 volts with .035 wire.Reason I know is bigger machines have amp and volt gages,some of the littler ones,don't believe do.

Course you got to be able to control the puddle,so you can only burn so hot to do this,if you are welding out of flat postion,you will see what I mean,but flat you can burn pretty hot unless your on real thin stuff.

Brands of welders are like brands of cars except you ain't got that many good ones to chose from,whatever brand you got,if it works right,than its the right brand