Mike, that's common. The settings chart in that machine assume you're doing flat welds on a bench, as that's all the engineers who advised the technical writers know how to do (if that). Your time in class "should" have taught you how to read the puddle and listen to the sound to get it r...

Poland308 wrote:Think it's a Lincoln thing. The charts and presets on the 210MP I got seem hotter than I like too.

Thank You, they should just leave the chart off the unit, don't make sense to me.

Hellow Boys and Girls... Love this fourm,Search for what I needed on here,But could not find the Information I needed... Just got out of welding school for mig,used the linoln 255's they had With no problems. I purchased a new lincoln 256 and set up the welder according to the Chart inside of the we...

I am from Norther Illinois and just ( last year ) started to get into welding. Took the Introductory to welding, Tig and now mig. enjoyed the Tig Process, Nice and relaxing and after about 10 hrs of welding purchased a Lincoln Precision Tig 275, Iam going to purchase a Lincoln Power Mig 256 next wee...