Clean your welders!

[Doug Krebs]

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.

[sasquatch]

get some of these and some mig wire lube/cleaner. brazos valley welding supply has them

http://www.brwelder.com/indextemplat...ubCategory=100

[Doug Krebs]

After cleaning it, it had to be arcing across where it was messed up. Maybe the thumbscrew came loose at somepoint. I've had the welder for almost 10 years now and have never messed with any of this.

[jerryg79]

Its probably cause karl used it that time!!!

It hasnt been 10 yrs has it? You got it after you got the blazer which was 2nd semester of soph year right?

[Sharpe]

It hasnt been 10 yrs has it? You got it after you got the blazer which was 2nd semester of soph year right?

Hard to believe yall are that old huh?

[Doug Krebs]

Its probably cause karl used it that time!!!

It hasnt been 10 yrs has it? You got it after you got the blazer which was 2nd semester of soph year right?

Probably feb of 2000. I've got the receipt at home, so i guess 8 years.

[Doug Krebs]

Hard to believe yall are that old huh?

If you were 16 you'd have a valid point. Where probably 5 or 6 years older than you?

[jerryg79]

Hard to believe yall are that old huh?

turns out we're not

[agjohn02]

turns out we're not

oh, come on jerry. admit that the fact you have a 10 year reunion coming up in a few months makes you feel old.

[jerryg79]

If you were 16 you'd have a valid point.

He weighs as much as i did when i was 16

[jerryg79]

oh, come on jerry. admit that the fact you have a 10 year reunion coming up in a few months makes you feel old.

not really, i'll feel old when i'm married and goto bed and 10 on the weekends, until then i'll keep on being a spry young buck (at least mentally)

[FJAggie07]

not really, i'll feel old when i'm married and goto bed and 10 on the weekends, until then i'll keep on being a spry young buck (at least mentally)

[Doug Krebs]

He weighs as much as i did when i was 16

He drinks like I did when I was 15!

[Doug Krebs]

wow, if you're welders acting up at all from jumping, spend the $15 on a new liner. Welding is orgasmic again!

[TxCruzr]

doug, thats not where you put the tip