Spool gun

[Yofish]

Kempy, thanks for the reply. So it seems you are happy with your machine. 3/64" aluminum wire is .047" diameter. Have you ever tried that? Does that gun take some standard tip or off-breed? I use an .060 tip. Can you get them that size? Nowhere can I find that info on the website.
I like the cleaning action I see on the weld in the second picture. The first pic looks like it has been brushed afterwards. All the machines I have or have used like to run .047" at between 19.5-22V. What are you running at? Have you ever been able to outrun the machines duty cycle?

[Kempy]

Kempy, thanks for the reply. So it seems you are happy with your machine. 3/64" aluminum wire is .047" diameter. Have you ever tried that? Does that gun take some standard tip or off-breed? I use an .060 tip. Can you get them that size? Nowhere can I find that info on the website.
I like the cleaning action I see on the weld in the second picture. The first pic looks like it has been brushed afterwards. All the machines I have or have used like to run .047" at between 19.5-22V. What are you running at? Have you ever been able to outrun the machines duty cycle?

I tried .045 once to see how it worked only with 4043 never tried 5356 in .045 but did with .035 and .030 not to bad but black maybe it would work with a little helium added. Yes the first one I used the wire brush to remove the black smoke. After I got thing working the black smoke was almost 100% gone. Duty cycle I have not push it that far yet. Welded 1 inch round tube to 1 inch round tube 1/8th thick about 6 inches each time total of about 5 ft. for about 2 minutes and off then Tig the rest of the part around 15 minutes or less.