Where does that lead go?

[GavFromOz]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the forum and have, what may seem like a silly question, but I've never owned a welder before.

I'm in the beginner's grade as far as welding goes, just having completed my first 6 months at tafe, studying boilermaking and fabrication. Long way to go yet.

I've just purchased my first mig welder (a cheapie) has the name of Tryweld MIG SYN1601 upon it.

The problem I have is that while setting up the welder, I found a lead inside the wire cavity, attached to the front of the wire roller mechanism but the other end was just lying in the cavity. I'm not sure where this lead goes. I think it may have been shoved into the cavity while being stored.

I have a few pics of the lead and the front of the welder.

Could anyone please shed some light as to where this lead fits? I'd really appreciate all the help I can get.

Regards
Gav

 

[gordon stephenson]

Don't know but looks like the machine will do stick welding too,probably meant to poke thro' the grommet at the bottom left of the casing and connect to a cable with a stick welding holder, there is a switch on the front panel to toggle from mig to stick

 

[GavFromOz]

Hi Gordon, thanks for the reply. The machine does stick welding as well as mig. I'm just a little concerned about the lead being there, unconnected, I don't want to shock or blow it up once I connect the other leads and switch it on

 

[Paul.]

Your welder has reversable polarity, pull that lead through the large hole, and if you are using it with shielding gas plug it into the + socket and then put the return into the - socket.
If using it with flux cored wire (gasless) then plug the lead into the - socket and the return into the +
Welcome to the forum

 

[GavFromOz]

Hi Paul, thank you for your reply. That makes sense now. I've managed to get a 4.5kg spool of .9mm and a 4.5kg of .8mm flux cored wire, so this is what I will be using for a little while.
Thanks once again

 

[rtbcomp]

Welcome to the forum, I've moved this to "Welders & Welding Machines"

 

[GavFromOz]

Hi and thanks rtbcomp