Sheild gas thoughts?

[Shield Arc]

roadhunter I wonder if it is just a matter of not finding the sweet spot of the settings? I've read numerous times where the Millermatic 250 Mig welder has a very small sweet spot. And the average guy has a very hard time setting them up correctly.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

I try to please everyone, but reality is, that there are some people that can't or won't be pleased. Although I don't like this, it is a fact of life, and at some point, you have to resign yourself to this. Plenty of people here have bought this unit, if not a few dozen, maybe hundred or so, many who lurk but don't weigh in. I've had relatively few complaints about the units. It's one of our best sellers. There are a few that have had issues, but most have been cleared up. As far as the value...that is made up. I've tracked our used units that people are selling online and on forums, and seen our product sell on Ebay used for as much and more than the user paid for it. I also have helped many customers resale theirs when they wanted to trade up at 80-90% of their purchase price. Anyone that sells their unit for a low ball price is leaving money on the table. There's one I am watching now, and the guy has a price at nearly full retail of his original purchase price and he is getting plenty of interest.

 

[yomax4]

Weld Spatter can and often is simply incorrect stick out and or or gun angle. I see welders at large plants who even complain that the Mig Gun causes too much spatter. More often than not it's gun angle or a wire issue. In my travels I've seen people blame the welder for porosity as well.

 

[Shield Arc]

yomax4 I got a news flash for you. It is never my fault, it is always the welding machine's fault!

 

[Shaneard]

We use 75-25 here at work, have been for the 21+ years I been here in the old Millermatic 250. It's been a good one, it's been here longer than me and I been here 21+ years. There is no telling how many rolls of wire have been ran thru it!

 

[Shaneard]

roadhunter I wonder if it is just a matter of not finding the sweet spot of the settings? I've read numerous times where the Millermatic 250 Mig welder has a very small sweet spot. And the average guy has a very hard time setting them up correctly.

This is true, ours is this way. You can tell by sound what needs adjusting, if you know what you're doing

 

[Shield Arc]

You can tell by sound what needs adjusting

The sound of the weld is very, very important to me! I can tell a lot just by the sound.

 

[Shaneard]

The sound of the weld is very, very important to me! I can tell a lot just by the sound.

Yes! When the other guy out in the shop strikes an arc, I can tell by the sound 25 feet away that he don't need to be welding, lol.

 

[yomax4]

yomax4 I got a news flash for you. It is never my fault, it is always the welding machine's fault!

I know.. I usually try to blame the wife or the dog.. No way it could be me pigeon pooping those beads..

 

[KubotainNH]

Ha ha, I've got a long ways to go before I can make out the whispering of a bead. Is weld whisperer a real thing? Every once in a while I get a nice steady sizzle from my stick welder. I'm shooting for better on the MIG.

 

[Big Barn]

Perhaps welder manufacturers could team up with bacon producers such as Oscar Mayer to produce migs that emit frying bacon ODORS along with the 'sizzling'.

Might be a good marketing ploy although it would prolly encourage earlier lunch breaks.....

Terry

 

[KubotainNH]

Ha ha. They may as well figure out how to make them auto adjust if you go that far.

 

[Shaneard]

Ha ha, I've got a long ways to go before I can make out the whispering of a bead. Is weld whisperer a real thing? Every once in a while I get a nice steady sizzle from my stick welder. I'm shooting for better on the MIG.

Weld whispering is for real.

 

[Shield Arc]

Weld whispering is for real.

That is a fact!

 

[Oldpath05]

I find that 95/5 shieding gas welds smoother with 70s and or SS solid wire then 75/25, lot less spatter. 75/25 is better for Duel Shied flux-core wire.

 

[yomax4]

I agree. I set by by sound and once you get to that. Things get a little easier. If you have a transformer machine, You will do well to up your argon content and cut back a little on CO2 if it's in the budget. With hard wire anyway.

 

[Shaneard]

That is a fact!

I wish we lived closer to each other I would love to hang out for about a week and get some of your knowledge about welding. My dad let me strike my first arc at 10 years old with the Lincoln AC225 buzz box that he still has today. I remember asking him how close do I put the rod? He said close as you can without it getting stuck. He probably regretted showing me how cause I would burn up rod after rod and when he needed to fix something he was fussing at me for burning so many rods. He worked for the fire department and worked 24 on, 48 off so the days he worked my brother and I would do all kinds of stuff. I loved to weld as a kid, I remember when I was about 12 or 13 he had a triangle welded together from angle iron, a friend of mine needed a piece of angle so while dad was at the FD I took the torch and cut a piece out of the triangle. He was going to use it to make a gate. Well, when he saw what was missing he ask me about it and gave me a choice, a whipping or be grounded from the welder for 1 week. I chose the whipping cause that's how much I liked to weld, it wasn't no open handed whipping either it was a belt clearing those belt loops right on the behind whipping about 3 licks. I thank my parents for the discipline they gave me and I always tell people I never got a whipping I didn't deserve, I did deserve a lot they never gave me though!

 

[Shield Arc]

Shaneard I started welding school at 14. Back then California schools pushed the trades. The welding school got me a job in a fab shop March of my senior year of high school. I graduated high school on Friday, the next Wednesday my dad had me in a construction apprenticeship. When I graduated my apprenticeship, I moved north. Only job I could get was in another fab shop building nuclear waste tanks. Did that for a couple years, then went back into construction. Started building bridges, and container ship docks. Worked from Alaska to southern California.
Several members here have been to my shop, so I could help them with their welding. I have 4 grandsons, I would do anything to teach them how to weld. All they want to do is play video games!:thumbdown::thumbdown:

 

[Shaneard]

Shaneard I started welding school at 14. Back then California schools pushed the trades. The welding school got me a job in a fab shop March of my senior year of high school. I graduated high school on Friday, the next Wednesday my dad had me in a construction apprenticeship. When I graduated my apprenticeship, I moved north. Only job I could get was in another fab shop building nuclear waste tanks. Did that for a couple years, then went back into construction. Started building bridges, and container ship docks. Worked from Alaska to southern California.
Several members here have been to my shop, so I could help them with their welding. I have 4 grandsons, I would do anything to teach them how to weld. All they want to do is play video games!:thumbdown::thumbdown:

When I was in high school my jr & sr year I got out at 12:00 and went to work at a landscape nursery, I hated it but it beat school. I graduated high school and 2 days later was working in heat and air business for 2 years, hated it. A friend of mine who worked here at this machine shop ask me if I wanted a job, I came in and love it, been here 21+ years, never been around a mig welder until I came here, always used that Lincoln AC225 buzzbox dad has. When I used the mig here I had to have one at home. We had 2 Bridgeports when I started working here, I ran a manual lathe for about 5 years then we got a 2 axis CNC bridgeport and I transferred over to it then we got a 3 axis CNC milling machine and I love it. There is only me and one other guy out in the shop and I do 99% of our welding as well as run the mill. My son is 4 and gets to come hang out with me every now and then and was just here Weds. while my wife went to a funeral and I let him help me saw some parts, he loves whatever his daddy loves and my wife and I don't let him play video games, he doesn't get our cell phone to pacify him if we're at church or a funeral, he is made to behave and we are blessed he is such a good boy to be 4. We don't let anyone watch him or our 1 year old daughter, my wife and I have said numerous times what's the point in having kids if you can't raise them. She takes them both to our store everyday she works, if she needs to do something I watch them. People tell me all the time "she got you baby sitting"? I say nope, you can't baby sit your own kids, it's called being a parent.

 

[KubotainNH]

My son is 4 and gets to come hang out with me every now and then and was just here Weds. while my wife went to a funeral and I let him help me saw some parts, he loves whatever his daddy loves and my wife and I don't let him play video games, he doesn't get our cell phone to pacify him if we're at church or a funeral, he is made to behave and we are blessed he is such a good boy to be 4. We don't let anyone watch him or our 1 year old daughter, my wife and I have said numerous times what's the point in having kids if you can't raise them. She takes them both to our store everyday she works, if she needs to do something I watch them. People tell me all the time "she got you baby sitting"? I say nope, you can't baby sit your own kids, it's called being a parent.

Blessed...absolutely but your kids are what you put in to them. Teach and love them well and the results are amazing. I'm not my kids friend, I'm their father and with that comes great responsibility. The world needs more like you Shaneard.

Now about MIGs.... ;-)