With the left side lead screw bracket in place, time to turn my attention to the right side where the bearings are. I also get the coolant return components buttoned up.
With the table and gib on the saddle, it’s time to button up each end. However, I am missing a couple parts for the crank end of the table. And in an effort to bring the machine back to the way it was originally, I need to make a couple parts for it.
I got my hands on the new PrimeWeld MIG 285 welding machine. In this video, I take it out of the box and run a few welds in both MIG, Flux Core as well as a little stick welding. These are my first impressions and opinions. I tried to get it shorter, but wanted to make sure I covered as much as I could and get a few arc shots. And I still couldn’t get it all in.
0:00 – Introduction
3:04 – Overview
8:56 – Power on and menus
13:32 – Install torch and wire spool
18:28 – First welds MIG .030 solid wire / voltage and inductance experimenting
26:59 – .035 flux core wire
28:45 – 7018 stick rod 3/32″
31:20 – 7018 stick rod 1/8″
34:05 – .025 solid wire MIG and small spool adapter
36:57 – First impressions – The Good and the Not-so-good
Part 4 of this series should have been a shorter video, but I ran into some serious issues with the chuck and had to make a rather significant adjustment.
Part 3 of this series of making an adapter plate to mount a 6″ chuck to my 8″ rotary table for use on the Bridgeport vertical milling machine. I needed some new T nuts to mount the adapter plate to the rotary table. And I have a Logan shaper that is aching to be used again.
