MIG Settings for any Thickness

hey everyone i'm mancub from well.com today i'm going to be showing you how to dial your mig machine in we're going to be working from a 22 gauge all the way to 3 8 carbon steel plate today i'm going to be using the everlast power imig 315. the type of gas i'm using is co2 the type of wire is er 70s6 and the size of the wire is o30 first i'm just going to grab 22 gauge start with the lidless i just flipped the machine on so we're at 18.1 volts and 96. so we're going to start with 22 gauge and we're just going to listen to it and see how it sound and we're going to slowly make adjustments until i like the noise bacon brine so this might sound a little strange how i'm doing this but it will make sense at the end so we're going to start with 22 gauge i'm running co2 25 cfh we're going to tune this machine in on the flat the reason we don't want to just grab a t-joint like this and set her because we don't know if our machine's tuned in or not and we're gonna sit here and just hold this and we're gonna be fighting with it so it's easier to just get it as best you can tune in on the flat piece of plate so you don't have to go holding it forever then we'll tune in rest of the way on this t-joint all right just by listening to that and see that wire balling up too saying i need more wire phase speed it's like not even fusing in pretty horrible just by listening to that sound how it's not melting in good and it's just stacking on top of each other we're at 18.0 volts we're pretty high on our bolts so wire feed speed we're going to crank up our wire feed speed then we'll probably adjust our volts down a little lower we'll adjust one at a time until we get really close to that sweet setting all right hear that sounds a lot better it's not too shabby there hear that sound all right so we're going to go ahead and stop here so i need a little bit more wire feed speed or i can adjust my bolts down a little bit we're going to move this down a half a volt the reason why i'm going to have to half a bolt instead of going up on my wire feed speed is way way too much penetration see that that's the back side actually that's the front side we're way more consistent look at that we're creating a boil puddle now so let's go ahead and give that a shot all right so it got a little hard start but when it's warmed up it's okay so when we first as soon as we pulled the trigger it was cold starting out you could hear it it like stuttered a little bit then about three or four seconds after it got running it was still kind of cold but then the plate obviously got warmed up because it's so thin then the bee got a little bit more flatter and that's what we're kind of looking for is right there but we're going to turn up the wire feed speed a little bit more probably 10 and leave our bolts there and try to find a better setting all right so did you hear that start a lot better arc initiation started right up and it leveled right out more we continued down the plate heated up a little bit and more of the weld flattened out and we got really great tie-ins so i think we're pretty much ready to go ahead and tack it and run probably half of the t-joint so when you're holding up your key joint make sure there's no gaps because that gap will mess you up bad with sheet metal all right so when i pulled the trigger uh you guys heard it was stuttering it was trying to start trying initiated arc then eventually it did it heated up so we're going to crank up our volts i need a little bit more heat but i want to see if the puddle will wet out a little bit more with volts uh i think we definitely will need wire feed speed but i want to change one thing at a time that's what i do uh it's the best way to do one thing at a time never do both and we're going to go ahead and change the volts a little bit see if it it straightens that start out and then we're going to maybe change the wire feed speed we'll see so i don't like that stutter uh you can hear as soon as i pull the trigger and it's stuttering so we're going to crank up the wire feed speed by 10 and then the bolts are going to remain the same all right so that came out pretty good remember we're running o30 wire 22 gauge is 30 thousandths the same thickness as the wire that ram's really good we ran fast you want to minimize the heat going on to that base metal that little stutter at the three quarters away in my whip was kind of tight right here so that's kind of made the wire staggered a little bit so i'm happy with them settings sounded great you guys heard it so just by hearing that sound of the bacon bacon frying in a pan just that sound you could walk by somebody and you could tell if they're tuned in or not so always remember that sound we're going to go ahead and move on from 18 gauge all your three-eighths we're gonna give you what i think is going to be the best settings on each one so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so quarter inch is usually the max with short circuit when you go past quarter inch you usually do a little spray transfer throw some oxygen or 90 10 or carbon dioxide in argon so we're turning up our wire feed speed a lot because we want to jam that route and they're really good and bite in then the bolts are going to crank up too so that's what we want is make sure we're biting in good so we did 22 gauge only 3 8 the main thing is listen to that bacon sound noise because you can walk up to any welder or walking by anybody and tell if their machine's tuned in when you're doing short circuit mode write these settings down put them somewhere safe because six months later you ain't gonna remember them you're doing a thousand things here at work or a thousand things at home i hope these help these settings because these are my personal settings on this machine i'm man cup from overwhelm.com hashtag well meanwhile green

Channel: Everlast Welders

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Length: 9min 32sec (572 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 10 2020