120-Volt Mig welder.

[Shield Arc]

dragon I agree with Arc weld. The picture on the left looks like slow travel speed. Or like we talked about when you were here. Too much wire in the puddle. Even tho more wire means more amps, you have to have more volts to wet it out. I forget, are you right or left handed? If right handed try starting on your right side moving to the left, pushing the puddle.

I can tell you right now your 211 will weld circles around this little Lincoln of my brother-n-laws.
As you can see by all the over spray on it, he is a retired body & fender man who does a little work in his garage. He took this little Lincoln as partial payment for a job. I think he might have got stuck!:laughing:

 

[vulcancowboy]

Just lurking....

 

[ThomasH]

dragon I agree with Arc weld. The picture on the left looks like slow travel speed. Or like we talked about when you were here. Too much wire in the puddle. Even tho more wire means more amps, you have to have more volts to wet it out. I forget, are you right or left handed? If right handed try starting on your right side moving to the left, pushing the puddle.

I can tell you right now your 211 will weld circles around this little Lincoln of my brother-n-laws.
As you can see by all the over spray on it, he is a retired body & fender man who does a little work in his garage. He took this little Lincoln as partial payment for a job. I think he might have got stuck!:laughing:

Well, I just don't know how to tell you how disappointed I am. I thought you had finally realized the error of your ways, and stepped up to a 120v mig unit. What can we do with you, after all of the helpful dialog about using 120v mig units, and you still are just stuck on "getting the puddle right"...

 

[skylarkguy]

I look forward to the face and root bend tests. The hammer blows thing is a bit too variable for me...(who is swinging what hammer changes things a lot).

Also it has been stated in other threads that to "push" the capabilities of a particular welding machine you consider the material prep and fit in the process. I would like to see that too.

Who has what particular ax to grind isn't interesting to me at all, I am interested in gleaning useful information. Weld on!

 

[Sodo]

Just curious...how many didn't see this coming???

Failing the 120v MIG is the first step, but not the last step. Using a 211 can come later, I'm interested in what this little Lincoln can do.

120v guys need to know what problems to watch for and how to solve them. You don't see any of these problems when nothing breaks, so it's pretty useful when someone who knows more ways to fail a machine than the rest of us know to succeed, will weld in a "fault" ----> and show it. It's pretty easy to add a brace, or weld both sides, and never have such a problem, but this is test-plate country, not a project; you're looking for faults.

I'm all for this.:drink:

 

[downsizingnow48]

Agree -- the main question is, how does a pro get the most out of a 110v machine. With testing to see what works best. This can be very useful.

 

[Shield Arc]

Well I stand corrected!
Even tho this is only 3/16-inch material, with 37 1/2-degree bevel. I'm sure it's pushing the limits of this machine. I don't have any 1/4, or 3/8-inch material. Next few days I'll go to town and pick some up.
I sure wouldn't want to do very much of this, slower than the second coming of Christ:shocked:! I almost fell asleep a couple times:laughing:. These coupons look very good to me:cool2:!

 

[Shield Arc]

I forgot to add this picture!

 

[Happy Gilmore]

Shield, push that little bugger and see what you can do with it. I think it's really cool to see what you can do with it.

 

[Sodo]

Shield, push that little bugger and see what you can do with it. I think it's really cool to see what you can do with it.

I'm looking forward to the "pretend you're on a desert island with only 120v and to get off the island I had to weld 1/4 inch"

What would the newbie do?
How would the pro do it?

Everybody can learn from this even those with 220v. And even the hobby/maintenance guy who "gets by OK".
:drink: