Hi Folks,
Before I put my new Parweld on ebay I thought to ask for some advice.
I bought a new Parweld xte171 as an upgrade for an old gasless clarke mig.
I am running 0.6mm wire and 9L/min argon gas.
I find the machine far too powerful for car restoration work, it blows holes in new metal panels when welding onto existing bodywork (ground back and bright)
Using the lowest power setting, and wire speed of 1, I find sometimes it just blows gas and not welding if I put the wire speed up to 2 it burns holes, not all the time but quite a lot and it can result in quite built up welds when trying to chase these blow holes.
Very disappointed, I could make the same mess with the old gasless mig without £500 plus gas cost.
I expect some of this will be down to my experience, I have restored a number of cars with the gasless so I have experience, I honestly expected a £500 Parweld to help me but it does not have the low end I need, I could make a neater weld job with oxy and deal with distortion.
Even on new metal on my bench it is very difficult to weld and holes are a 50% chance.
Using it on the lowest settings all round, what else can I do? Are there better alternatives? I am only interested in car bodywork and no need to weld thicker steel that this parweld can do.
Before I put my new Parweld on ebay I thought to ask for some advice.
I bought a new Parweld xte171 as an upgrade for an old gasless clarke mig.
I am running 0.6mm wire and 9L/min argon gas.
I find the machine far too powerful for car restoration work, it blows holes in new metal panels when welding onto existing bodywork (ground back and bright)
Using the lowest power setting, and wire speed of 1, I find sometimes it just blows gas and not welding if I put the wire speed up to 2 it burns holes, not all the time but quite a lot and it can result in quite built up welds when trying to chase these blow holes.
Very disappointed, I could make the same mess with the old gasless mig without £500 plus gas cost.
I expect some of this will be down to my experience, I have restored a number of cars with the gasless so I have experience, I honestly expected a £500 Parweld to help me but it does not have the low end I need, I could make a neater weld job with oxy and deal with distortion.
Even on new metal on my bench it is very difficult to weld and holes are a 50% chance.
Using it on the lowest settings all round, what else can I do? Are there better alternatives? I am only interested in car bodywork and no need to weld thicker steel that this parweld can do.