hey everyone welcome to another episode of well.com if you're having issues with a wire
feeding problem with your wire not feeding through your uh your machine right coming out through your
whip coming out to your contact tip and you can't weld properly so i got a lot of good
tips and good common problems that you overlook at everyday use even pros will overlook this before
you're putting your uh mid gun back your mid gun into your welding machine always check the size
the size is right here or sometimes you got to pull your liner out i'm talking about your liner
make sure you know what size wire you're running first if you're running o35 wire make sure you're
running a 035 liner they usually come 0-35 or 35-45 or 30-35 make sure that because
why it's important is because let's say you put a big wire into this small hole o-45 wire
wires bigger than o35 wire what's going to do it's going to be basically squeezing against squeezing
through the hole and it's going to be scraping all around 360 degrees through that liner hole
basically what the liner hole is see that little hole right there that's the liner
so it'll basically slow it basically the wire would be going like this coming out of your
contact up while you're welding when you've gotten the arc started you'll see your wire going like
this in and out in and out that's a common problem i see all the time make sure you're running the
right size liner another issue i see all the time is people don't put their mid gun in all the way
and they don't tighten this knob right here make sure this knobs tighten
tighten that up make sure it's in all the way before you load your wire up
i don't care if you're in in a shop that's been operating for 20 years you've been there
for five years jumping from one machine to another machine it's not your machine
look at your guide tubes right here guide tubes are right here guide your wires from one drive
roll to another or one drive roll into your um into your back your gun make sure your your guy
tubes are not touching the drive rolls if they're touching them uh drive rolls are always rotating
every time you press your trigger well that's putting pressure against your drive rolls
well what's going to happen it's going to make everything work harder and it's going to heat
up and also your wire is going to go back and forth back and forth and you think you've got
your machine set wrong you're going to adjust your volts you're going to adjust your wire feed speed
you'll be doing that for an hour and you'll still think it's a problem or a ground problem well
it will be that problem guarantee you then you'll see a whole bunch of metal shavings right here
this hole right here and this thing they always miss that well that's made for there's a spring
right here a bolt and a washer depends what type of machine you have and that supposed to help roll
help basically help roll and there's even a motor in there that every time you pull a trigger to
help feed it like move it always make sure that's lined up right here always so on this bowler wire
so i always make sure look at the roll look which way your wire's going that's another problem
so this wire is going like this get your get your hole lined up with your knob
i put my knob at 12 o'clock all the time because i know i was just a habit
you get your own thing do your own way all right put your put that up there and lock it in
all right this is another problem right here people forget about putting this in what happens
is when you don't put this in it will fall out on you but also this one thing too you got to add to
so let's say you got this shut right like that and it's not going to your
your roll's not going to fall off well it moves over and rubs this inside then that's
another common issue it causes drag on your wire and you'll think it's oh it's a piece of
crap machine all right it's not it's your problem because you're not paying attention put that on
people don't know how to run this wire properly don't run your wire
up here and come down here all right run your wire
from bottom and come around this is a straight shot this is not a straight shot you're going
to put pressure right here and it's going to cause your wire feeding issue you actually wear a groove
i've seen people like doing that for a long time they said it was the right way it's not the right
way before i even feed my wire through these guide rolls into the drive rolls i basically look at my
drive rolls take them out if you can't see you need your glasses or don't have your glasses
take them out sometimes you can't see the numbers because there's a washer covering it
make sure make sure you got the right drive rules with the right type of wire you're using
uh sometimes they got o35 on one side and o45 on one side sometimes it's just o35
and that's it so make sure you're right you know which one's going
this is the o35 bowler stainless steel wire so i'm going to put o35 on the inside
if not you're going to be running off 0.45 and it's too big but you're going to have wire
feeding issue what you're going to do still crank crank that uh crank this pressure all the way down
and and it still won't run right you'll still think you have the machine's a piece of crap
that's not the problem i see a lot of people don't know how to adjust the tension right all
right let's say i got my wire feeding speed pretty high i hit my trigger this is loose
watch what happens see that the wheel just kept on going here watch again
i'll let off my trigger what happened still that's still spun so when that happens sometimes
this will unravel on you like this and it'll just unravel under underneath i mean it could
five five layers might unravel five little lines might unravel well
within a 30 seconds or within like five seconds of welding it will just stop welding you'll have
a burn back and mess up a contact tip then you'll get mad and have to undo all this so how i do this
is i basically turn this in pull your trigger let go if it stops it's good uh and also if it's too
tight i feel this drive roll if it's too tight like it takes a lot of pressure to move the wire
take a lot of force to move the wire you know it's too tight just kind of fill that around it's
common sense but the main thing is when you stop that stops a lot of problems i also see people
crank this down this is the tensioner puts more tension on your drive rolls all right this and
it does this there's a spring right here know what type of wire you're running know what size you're
running uh know if your metal is hard soft like steel and aluminum there's different pressures
so let's say o45 stainless steel bowler wire i run a little bit more pressure it's harder metal it's
stiffer so by this machine it's uh was it between three and a half to four and a half you gotta know
what your machine is so look it up in the manual so i basically set this to three and a half and
i usually run that basically the same on steel and stainless steel run the right drive rolls if
you're having problems feeding so the right drive rules for this wire would be a b groove drive roll
045 the size if you do a u-groove the wire will slip the grooves really big it's you the
wire's round the knurl wire neural drive rolls don't use them it's for tubular wire flux core
metal core that will put neural marks in your wire right here people forget to tighten this when you
what happens when you pull your trigger while this pops out on you boom and this will actually
weld still you'll actually be welding and there actually be a little bit of gas still going in
like it pops out that much and it's still sealing a little bit but you'll still have a wire feeding
issue you'll think about what the hell is going on or what the heck is going on and you
start adjusting your bolts so don't forget to tighten that up always keep this tight push it
in all the way then look you gotta visually look at this don't be a butt head and not look at it
look at it make sure it's seated properly when you're putting your machine away
and to use it tomorrow don't do this right here see this see how tight that is don't do that i'll
have to change the slider liner now don't do that what happens here this is what's in your mid-gun
there's people with five years experience three years experience no no years of experience don't
know this is inside your mid gun alright what happens when you start doing this well look look
how easy this kinks look at that i just caught a few i just caused the feeding issue and you'll
pull your hair out and be looking at all these issues i just taught you don't do that do this
your dad your grandpa whoever will thank you for doing this this will make your
liner last a long long time go big loops big loops go big loops all right go big loops
you know i mean find a spot you'll find a spot where it always goes in that spot after you
figure out how it lays the mid gun leaving this contact tip or leaving the contact tip loose
and uh creates a hot spot right here and it burns out your contact tip faster it heats
up your contact tip because electricity is not flowing through here right always tighten this up
always make sure your um here's another one make sure your liner
is past these gas holes a lot of people don't know this i didn't know this make sure your liner
when you cut it make sure it's cut way past here you want it close you can to your contact tip if
it's far away it's got a gap right here well your wire wanders that much and won't feed it properly
the diffuser is already designed for that liner to run past them holes already they
already thought about that the welding engineers um run the right size contact tip don't run a o23
uh o23 or o23 contact tip on an o35 wire you're going to get bird nesting if your gun's kinked up
like sometimes you have a wire feeding issue your gun sometimes get like this
see how it's like twisting untwist it back up back up get it straight and untwist it that's a
feeding issue so you do this they don't realize it and they think something's wrong with their
machine it's not feeding right so what happens is your wire comes out it don't have a straight shot
it bounces around here and it basically puts more pressure on the wire so
it comes out when you hit your trigger it's going like this you have it burned back
if you can't get a straight line do it like a big curve like a big c or big u all right
just like that your machine's not messed up guys just don't know it's all right don't know these
problems will fix your wire feeding issue see you guys next time learning is key you