Millermatic 211.
This forum will provide you with fairly swift and accurate responses to most of your shop, not just welding, questions. It is the only one I actively frequent.
To your questions, my responses:
1. Correct drive rolls, correct drive roll tension, correct spool tension, an un-knotted mig gun lead, correct stick out, wire speed and voltage. Also correct polarity for solid or flux core.
2. There's nothing wrong with the M100 for your machine. It's not that big of a machine, and you can only push wire so far. It would be better to have a shorter lead and get your machine closer to your work. But there may be a more expensive replacement if you really want one, but of such I have no idea.
3. When you say "different tips", are you referring to the contact tip or the different nozzles?
4. Broc covered that one. My opinion is...I'm not a fan of multipurpose machines. The main reason is if something breaks, you could potentially be out of luck for all the processes it provides. I want a mig machine that wants to be a mig machine and a plasma cutter that wants to be a plasma cutter. And I am not familiar with any machine that migs and HF AC TIGs.
5. I say buy the nicest mask you can afford. One thing for sure is that we all could use with changing our sacrificial lenses a little more often. I'm a cheap prick, so I use mine until way past it's expiration date, for no good reason too. The lenses are fairly cheap and kept well in stock at my LWS. Buy something that has a replaceable battery too.
Practice. Practice. Practice.
If welding was easy, everyone would do it. The only thing easy about welding is screwing it up.
This forum will provide you with fairly swift and accurate responses to most of your shop, not just welding, questions. It is the only one I actively frequent.
To your questions, my responses:
1. Correct drive rolls, correct drive roll tension, correct spool tension, an un-knotted mig gun lead, correct stick out, wire speed and voltage. Also correct polarity for solid or flux core.
2. There's nothing wrong with the M100 for your machine. It's not that big of a machine, and you can only push wire so far. It would be better to have a shorter lead and get your machine closer to your work. But there may be a more expensive replacement if you really want one, but of such I have no idea.
3. When you say "different tips", are you referring to the contact tip or the different nozzles?
4. Broc covered that one. My opinion is...I'm not a fan of multipurpose machines. The main reason is if something breaks, you could potentially be out of luck for all the processes it provides. I want a mig machine that wants to be a mig machine and a plasma cutter that wants to be a plasma cutter. And I am not familiar with any machine that migs and HF AC TIGs.
5. I say buy the nicest mask you can afford. One thing for sure is that we all could use with changing our sacrificial lenses a little more often. I'm a cheap prick, so I use mine until way past it's expiration date, for no good reason too. The lenses are fairly cheap and kept well in stock at my LWS. Buy something that has a replaceable battery too.
Practice. Practice. Practice.
If welding was easy, everyone would do it. The only thing easy about welding is screwing it up.
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