Doug Krebs
01-16-2008, 05:30 PM
So I bought a new liner for my mig gun because mine was orginal and my wire was getting jumpy.
So I go to take the gun out of the welder which should be simple. Remove a thumb screw and pull out the lead. After prying and turning with channel locks it would only come out about an 1/8th. So I call up the place I bought the liner and tells me I'm doing it right but it shouldn't be that hard. He said I could bring it in if I wanted to and he'd do it.
So I bring it up there and he tries yanking on it and nothing happens. He told me he didn't want to break it but I should keep trying.
So I ended up taking the whole drive assembly and feeding the gun backwards through the whole. I clamped the assembly in the vice where I was able to work on it better. It finnally came out and there is a bunch of goo and crap where there shouldn't be anything.
I'm not sure if it builds up somehow or it was there orginally.
I'll be cleaning this a lot more often now.
So I go to take the gun out of the welder which should be simple. Remove a thumb screw and pull out the lead. After prying and turning with channel locks it would only come out about an 1/8th. So I call up the place I bought the liner and tells me I'm doing it right but it shouldn't be that hard. He said I could bring it in if I wanted to and he'd do it.
So I bring it up there and he tries yanking on it and nothing happens. He told me he didn't want to break it but I should keep trying.
So I ended up taking the whole drive assembly and feeding the gun backwards through the whole. I clamped the assembly in the vice where I was able to work on it better. It finnally came out and there is a bunch of goo and crap where there shouldn't be anything.
I'm not sure if it builds up somehow or it was there orginally.
I'll be cleaning this a lot more often now.