Anyone know how to add a spool gun to a Lincoln Wire Matic 255?

[yomax4]

I bought a couple of 255s last fall and was going to sell one to friends company to use with an existing Lincoln gun they had. We "assumed" being the same make, it would work. As it turned out, the guns are machine specific and I lost the sale.

Just for starters, the connectors were different, and I could have changed that, but Lincoln told me, it still would not work.

Wire Matic 255 was made in USA, Power Mig 255's not. Different everything internal.

 

[spursjingles]

Ok, this just maybe stubborn on my part but I'll ask anyway....I own a Lincoln Wire Matic 255, I stupidly purchased it years ago WITHOUT the spool gun control kit. The spool gun control kit is no longer available from Lincoln, I have been looking for a used 255 with the kit with 0 luck. I don't use it a ton, I mostly use it during the winter months when I'm not busy with my excavation business to weld up buckets and some odd jobs here and there, so it doesn't have a lot of heavy use. I really don't want to buy a new Mig welder with all the electronics since mine works just fine. That being said, does anyone know if it's possible to add a spool gun to this welder any other way?? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I had an adapter made for my 256 lincoln and added the miller 30a spoolgun. Works perfect