Thanks for the replies everyone. For the wire feed issue I still cannot figure what happened. With the KT wire it would cause feeding after the trigger was let up and only when it was arcing. It was very bizarre but I put a couple feet of wire through the gun without welding to see if the trigger wa...

Super new to the welding game but I have a kind of weird scenario that might be a good teaching moment. I bought a Titanium 170 from harbor freight to play around with to get my feet wet. I was using the flux wire that came with it but wanted to upgrade so I bought some KT industries .030 from my fa...