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So, I have a new Spoolmate 100 that I've never used that goes with my Multimatic 200, probably had it about 3 years still in the blow molded case. Never needed it as I also have a 350P and 25' push-pull python gun and use 12" spools. Anyway over the long weekend my youngest son, 10, who has been learning to weld this past year or two and wanted to practice more stick welding. He asked me about the spool gun and I had 1 small spool of 5356 laying around. Since they never have been used together before I had to do the initial 100ipm & 300ipm 24" calibration.
Problem. On the 100 speed my initial length was only 14" and the 300 speed i only got 18"?? The Multimatic 200 only gives you 4" + or - of adjustment. Usually the initial test is pretty close anyway only needing 1/4 or 1/2" of adjustment. I know it's recommend only to run 4043. I rarely if ever use that and figured eh, we'll see if I can get it to weld with 5356. I have to pickup a few spools of 4043 tomorrow and run the calibration again, it will be interesting to see the difference.
My question is I have a mystery part in the case and for the life of me can't figure out what it's for. I can't find it in any manuals and it doesn't have any obvious part number. I know it doesn't go to the Multimatic 200, I'm thinking it may be for some other Spoolmate compatible machine to turn off the internal wire drive motor when using the spool gun? The only other thing I can think of is I have a pigtail to adapt normal 14pin to 6 pin when TIG welding to hookup a remote. I just keep it in the blow mold case with the spool gun. Maybe it came with that originally, but I don't remember. Any ideas?
Problem. On the 100 speed my initial length was only 14" and the 300 speed i only got 18"?? The Multimatic 200 only gives you 4" + or - of adjustment. Usually the initial test is pretty close anyway only needing 1/4 or 1/2" of adjustment. I know it's recommend only to run 4043. I rarely if ever use that and figured eh, we'll see if I can get it to weld with 5356. I have to pickup a few spools of 4043 tomorrow and run the calibration again, it will be interesting to see the difference.
My question is I have a mystery part in the case and for the life of me can't figure out what it's for. I can't find it in any manuals and it doesn't have any obvious part number. I know it doesn't go to the Multimatic 200, I'm thinking it may be for some other Spoolmate compatible machine to turn off the internal wire drive motor when using the spool gun? The only other thing I can think of is I have a pigtail to adapt normal 14pin to 6 pin when TIG welding to hookup a remote. I just keep it in the blow mold case with the spool gun. Maybe it came with that originally, but I don't remember. Any ideas?
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