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I'm having trouble uploading pictures, I clicked on the camera button and took a picture but it just kept saying loading and never uploaded. I also tried uploading from a website and putting in the thing and it said something and wouldn't let me.
I did figure out why the welder sounded funny using the 7018 rod I had it on dcsp and not dcrp, the funny thing is on my lincoln I always left it on DC + . Unless I'm confused DC+ is Dcsp ( DIRECT current straight polarity) which would be the rod arc going from the rod to the work and dc- or DCRP ( Direct current reverse polarity is from the work to the rod.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I just wonder why the lincoln would weld better ( it always did with 1/8 7018 on DC+
Only thing I could think of is that the polarity inside the machine is reversed. This machine uses some sort of plates that when you turn the lever they align with other plates. Maybe someone reverse them to do flux core??
When I got the welder it had a 44lb spool of esab spool arc 0.035 so I would assume they weren't using flux core.Leave a comment:
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Bought a new to me Airco Dip/Stick 160 multiprocess welder
I have been stick welding for the past year now and was in the market for a mig welder and didn't have a whole lot of cash and happened to find a older Airco dipstick 160 that can mig tig and stick so I gave the guy $300 bucks untested and took a gamble that it would work and sure enough it did. I haven't been able to use the mig side of the machine yet as the mig gun was old and parts couldn't be found, so weldmart out in Texas is building me a 10ft whip with a new gun using the orginal power pin and it uses tweco consumables. The welder also has a spot and stich function that was optional from the factory which I thought was cool.
The stick welder side of the machine didn't come with a lead so I picked up a 10ft 2g lenco stinger and had to make a plug to fit into the electrode jack. The tig side of the machine I'll prolly never use as it doesn't have a HF box.
This machine is about 220lbs and has a 60% duty cycle.
I was testing it out today and comparing the 7018 welds vs my lincoln ac/dc buzz box. The sound is different it doesn't have the bacon frying sound of the lincoln and creates a lil more splatter. I tried using both DC+ and DC-.
Only downside to this machine is drive rollers are impossible to find so I'm stuck with 0.030-0.035 and it only except's 12 or possible 10" spools as the wire feeder is offset to the opposite side of the machine..
I'm hoping in the next week or 2 I'll have the mig gun back and can practice, hopefully it has good arc characteristics like people say. I got my new tank of 75/25 mix and a profax regulator already hooked up.
Maybe someone with a old machine can tell me if there stick welder sounds different then the newer machines .
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