Welding Tips and Tricks

Lately you see alot of cheap Flux only welders, I have found they do come in handy for small jobs.

I have a Lincoln Electric Weld Pack HD Feed Welder

I would like to know if you could change them to run as a MIG with Shieled gas. I did want to do some small Stainless jobs but finding Stainless Flux core is another storey.

I did contact lincoln about changing the Gun but they told me there was no enterchangable gun made.

I remember back when I still worked the Miller 250 I ran had a Hobart wire feed with an adaptor to fit a Miller Gun.

Bottom line I have one Stainless job I want to do, should take me about 3 days to fab all the pipe/tube. I want to weld a frame out of 3/4 and 1" 316 stainless Tubing but do not want to go buy another welder.

Dutch

I know that someone up here must have more knowledge than I when it comes to mgyvering up buzz boxes. But one obvious, though perhaps last ditch effort solution, would be to simply attach a hose(connected to a gas bottle of course) onto you'r wire feed handle, turn the gas on, and let it run like that. But i'll bet that would eat up plenty of gas too.

I hope someone else knows more about this,

-Rick

Thank you Rick,

LOL so you see my point that they could easy make them run with Gas but just dont make the adaptor.


I thought someone would reply with just machine a adaptor myself.
I did think of that but the cost to make myself is more than a cheap stick welder for this small job I have.

By the way some one at some time did make a Flux Core Stainless wire but I sure can not find it anymore. ( this is not the Duel Shield some may think of)


Dutch

I personally have never seen a flux cored SS wire. Possibly you could use a large sized SS stick rod?

i don't mean to be an Ahole but (millermatic 135) at 600+$ i know it's not cheap but it's not bad and thats everything but the gas

First off Thank you for your input.

I wrote the post for anumber of reasons.

I now Live on a boat so storage is limited. A welder is a must have tool due to you can fix anything so I got the first welder because of the compac size and to be honest the Mild steel limit did not come to mind.

I did find the Whip Adaptors on line and cost is around $35. So I do still have some useful memery with my age.

I did not get the Adaptor because another person here at my Marina had a SP-135 Plus Lincoln Wire Feeder & MIG Welder that I got for $100.


Well Thank you all.

I will post some pic's of my frame work in a week or two.

Dutch