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Karl Townsend
 
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Default wire feeder on Tig/stick welder

A friggin' monster wire feed welder followed "The Kid" home from the auction
yesterday. The power supply box is a 3 phase antique, but it has a real nice
Lincoln Electric LN-7 wire feeder on it.

Can I just hook this wire feeder up to my Lincoln IdealArc 300/300 TIG stick
welder? I see all wire feed welders say volts on the knob and all Tig/stick
say amps.

Karl



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Don Foreman
 
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Default wire feeder on Tig/stick welder

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:28:50 GMT, "Karl Townsend"
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A friggin' monster wire feed welder followed "The Kid" home from the auction
yesterday. The power supply box is a 3 phase antique, but it has a real nice
Lincoln Electric LN-7 wire feeder on it.

Can I just hook this wire feeder up to my Lincoln IdealArc 300/300 TIG stick
welder? I see all wire feed welders say volts on the knob and all Tig/stick
say amps.

Karl

Fitch has run an LN-7 off his Lincoln Ranger -- which is a stick
machine. He says it worked fine.

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azotic
 
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"Karl Townsend" remove .NOT to reply wrote
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A friggin' monster wire feed welder followed "The Kid" home from the
auction yesterday. The power supply box is a 3 phase antique, but it has a
real nice Lincoln Electric LN-7 wire feeder on it.

Can I just hook this wire feeder up to my Lincoln IdealArc 300/300 TIG
stick welder? I see all wire feed welders say volts on the knob and all
Tig/stick say amps.

Karl


Yes, been there done that. Works quite well, just needs a little getting
used to since
the ocv is higher for stick welders than migs you will notice that the wire
will want to
burn back up the copper tip if the feed is set to low so sheet metal will be
hard to
weld with this setup but its great for nonstop welding on heavier plate. Of
course
you machine must be setup for DC output and the HF set off.

Best Regards
Tom.



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