Welder Info Needed

[MoparManJim]

Hi you all, I seen someone else had ask as similar question, but I didn't want to hi jack there thread as my question is kinda in the same boat but different area though. I'm looking for a welder, nothing fancy, I am limited on funds also so that is also another factor  . I'm looking for a mig welder wire feed one that works right. I been looking at afew. I had one that went out on me last year with no sign either  and I was in the middle of welding to when it happen. My question is I can ask it right is how does the wire feed units work on each welding michine out there? Reason I ask is afew years back I barrowed one from a family relative and it was a Bufflow one from walkmart and that dame thing had a issue with the wire feed unit. When I went to weld it wouldn't feed UNTILL I left off the trigger then it would feed the wire . I tryed to use it but got more madder at it so I called him up and ask him about why or if this is how it was pose to work but all I got was a answering michine. His son (my far out cousin) stop in the next day and ask me how everything was doing. I talk to him about his father's michine and how it was working for me.. because he used it over at his dad's place at times, well he said that is how it pose to work.. I thought to myself "yea right" because I know him very well and so does afew others  . So after using that michine or trying to use and how it worked for me I been wherry at all welding michines now and wonder how there welding wire feed unit works or if they are on a relay with the trigger and feeding the wire. So any advice on each michine and the wire feed units will be nice to know.

[Troy]

The wire should feed when the trigger is depressed (and stop when you let off). Since the welding process is started/perpetuated by the wire it wouldn't make any sense at all for it to feed after you've stopped welding. The wire would burn quickly and the weld would stop then, by the time the wire fed the current would be shut off.

Troy

[MoparManJim]

That's what I thought also, Troy. But that michine was backwards though when it came down to feeding the wire. My friend Mark watch me afew times try to use and ask me if it was how it was pose to work and I told him "No, it's not" I got thinking then maybe it was how some of them was built though. But for all my life, I didn't ever see one work like that one did though before. The son argued me up and down that was how they was built and worked and I told him I had afew welders before that and the wire feed ones I had never worked anything like that one did. I had constantly squeeze and leave go of the trigger to do little welding. His dad didn't use the welder that much because of the same issue. So anymore when I look at a welding michine I can't help but question the feed unit inside it, that's why I ask in this thread about the makes out there and how they work or if they are anything like that one was.

[Magnumcharger]

Sounds to me like the controls are somehow installed backwards. How that could be, I cannot say.

This is how its supposed to work:

As you depress the trigger, wire and gas are dispensed from the "gun".
When the wire makes contact with the metal, an electric arc is formed - melting the wire into weld.
When you let go...it all stops.

Period.

[MoparManJim]

Sounds to me like the controls are somehow installed backwards. How that could be, I cannot say.

This is how its supposed to work:

As you depress the trigger, wire and gas are dispensed from the "gun".
When the wire makes contact with the metal, an electric arc is formed - melting the wire into weld.
When you let go...it all stops.

Period.

That is how my other few welders I had at one time or another worked also just like you said. Like I said it was only this one that was strange. But now I question each one anymore.