YesWelder Sent Me Their Mig 250 Pro For Welding Steel And Aluminum Without The Need Of A Spool Gun
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2022
- I was asked to give an honest review but this might be a bit too honest. I will be reviewing The YesWelders Mig 250 Pro and testing their Customer Service after I received a slightly damaged Item. Make sure you watch till the end for a surprising conclusion!
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I love your honesty and I did learn a good amount because of it.
Nice new toy you got there Dave I’m hoping you’ll be able to figure out the aluminum situation!!??? See you in the next video!!!!
50 amp breaker is not a hard requirement. I ran mine on a 30A breaker up to over 180 amps, and never had a problem. I can't imagine a scenario where I would need to crank this machine all the way up to its limit. I get more frustrated with it not going low enough to weld thin material.
Once you sort out the aluminum issue with the yesweld 250 you will be set. Hope they can give you some customer service help on the phone so you can try out what advertised they give while they talk you through it. Your really fortunate they send this stuff. I sure could have used one during some of the building of my locost. Just had to get a buddy to do it with his tig machine.
Keep practicing I’m sure you will get it figured out.
You are very fortunate to be sent a yes welder to do a review on, from what i saw it seemed to be a good welder for thicker metal, not so much for thin gauge or aluminum, good video, thanks for sharing
I still need to test with shielding gas.
@@ScottRods yes probably big difference
I just bought the same unit. Weld exhaust pipe great. Only prob is it auto feeds after about 1 second after arc. Need to tap button to stop. Hope its just a setting i missed
Welding aluminum is crazy hard, I am impressed with what you did get accomplished. Now you have dozens of welders please remember me when you are ready to sell your Lincoln!
Funny you mention the Lincoln.... I'll get you on Facebook
One thing about aluminum it has to be super clean....also there is a special lens you need or you can damage your eyes I'm told....might want to research that... otherwise your set for about any kind of welding...guess I'' just keep using my sp-100 Lincoln Iv'e had for 37 years and still workin...now get to work...
Good info. Especially since my YesWelder fluxcore machine is supposed to be delivered today.
Which one are you getting Willy? Let us know how you get on.
@@ScottRods Fluxcore 135 and went for the TIG attachment for it. I've been using a Harbor Freight/Chicago Electric fluxcore box for a few years now until it quit on me the other day welding up a split muffler on my mower. I got a lot of use out of it, but it's time to upgrade.
The more I watch people mig welding the more I appreciate the old stick type welding. Have welded steel, castiron, and aluminium with less issues. Select right rod and amp setting for metal being used. You'll enjoy stick and it's simplicity.
I really need to try this stick thing.
With a heavy enough mig you can do in one day what it would take 3 days with a stick. One time a huge rock fell out of the bucket as a Komatsu PC 220 swung it around to dump it. It rolled down the hill and hit the top of the tracks so hard that it bent the 3 inch square idler wheel bracket over about 45 degrees.
So one morning back at the shop the hoe was needed somewhere and we loosened the track and jacked it up off the idler. I then cut the 3 inch square bracket just nearly all the way off but left enough to where with it glowing red it would stand on its own once it was bent back strait up. I ended up notching a V in the thing about 2.5 inches with a torch and in a couple hours with a Millermatic 250x I had that entire thing filled up and they loaded it on the lowboy and took it away.
Brilliant video thank you 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hey Dave. Good video. How do you get Yes to send you all that free stuff? I contacted them months ago and they said that they don't need any more people to review their stuff. Your weld looks good but maybe you are going a little too slow and getting a high bead. You can tell YES to send me that extra welder and I will check it out for them. Thanks for sharing.🍁👍👍
I see lots of Canadian flag sticker in your garage my friend!!! Thanks for the review because I have been looking at this machine to buy. I have a Lincoln 180c but want to up grade to a higher amp machine.
I actually just hooked up the argon today and gave it a test. It's pretty amazing. I'll try and make a short video of it tomorrow.
@@ScottRods great thank you
Looks like a cool addition. Here is a challenge, try and weld some aluminum cans.
I'm going to get some fresh wire and some aluminum coupons before I try again. That was just embarrassing, lol
I usually push my mig gun instead of pulling. Might give it a try.
There was so many things I did wrong in this video, it's hilarious. A combination of old mig wire, bad settings, and complete incompetance, lol.
Bless you for posting it. I chimed in above how I welded aluminum mig years ago. It's tricky but once you figure it out, it's pretty fun. BTW you were right about preheating thick material. 3/16 and up I preheated with a propane torch like a plumber uses. After you start the welding preheats as you go.
Yes its a welder how good is the plasma cutter thks
The manual is wrong when it told you switch your leads. After 6 months of researching and trying to decide which Yeswelder will suit me best I have not seen anybody that can lay a good weld down with the polarity reversed
silly question. can you weld in vertical and overhead? i just received mine and im having trouble welding with it uphill. IM still getting the settings down
any info would be appreciated. I am using 0.035 gasless flux core.thanks again
I don't see why that wouldn't work. Does it weld ok on the flat?
If you’re using -gs wire it’s not rated for overhead. Need the -11 as I understand it. The gs wire also is only a 1 pass style whereas the -11 is multi pass
I have seen people mig weld aluminum with a spool gun, I went out and bought a $500. spool gun wrecked a dozen tips and never got a weld. Tig is the only option for me.
If this machine can tig aluminum, I'll definitely be trying that.
How did you have the polarity set for the aluminum Scott? Someone else said the manual was wrong and quickly tried the other way. He was getting smoked up dark globs of messy looking welds before switching polarity.
I have never in my life been so embarrassed as the day a guy brought me an aluminum 4 wheeler muffler at the recommendation of my daughter.
I had gotten good at Tig welding stainless at the shop and was like ya bring it on I have some aluminum rods.
Then I didn't understand how clean aluminum has to be to weld it and without cutting the silencer completely in half there was no possible way to clean all the soot out of it. Needles to say it didn't weld at all worth a darn no matter what I tried. If I had it over to do again I'd saw it in half so I could clean the inside. Part of me still don't know if it would work on a soot filled dirty muffler.
Yes, I did change the polarity which helped. I just need a lot of practice.
@@ScottRods I was told also that aluminum it has to be cleaned with acetone and ground with disk that have never touched metal and stainless steel brushes that never get used on metal as well.
If you set your voltage for plate thickness and turn the wire feed up higher to where its pushing the gun away then start backing off the wire speed until it settles down to a nice spray arc.
Also I like the pull ahead and wait for the puddle to fill out gun manipulation.
31:15 You're dragging when there is no flag buddy. You gotta push with processes that use shielding gas. 😅
Yeah, I keep forgetting that tiny essential detail, lol.
@Scott Rods haha. I think that's really the problem. Also I would try turning up my gas flow, and play with gun angle.
So why did you move from Scotland to Canada? Just curious. I never got any freebees to test, I always had friends that worked at Miller Electric so they were able to get me discounts and I was always able to test welding equipment at local technical college. Always pays to read instructions before using new equipment, this goes for me too.
Always wanted to move to Canada. Took us 20 years. Weather, cars, culture,attitude etc. Too many reasons to list. Cool flag too, lol.
Your garage is not made of space either? Lol I thought I was the only one with the walls closing in .
Подскажи пожалуйста, какие настройки ты ставил для сварки алюминия в ручном режиме, расскажи подробно, сам мучаюсь не могу понять, тоже самое проволока горит липнет, подскажи полную инструкцию для ручной настройки алюминия. У меня похожий сварочный аппарат. Буду ждать, спасибо
Вы пытались поменять полярность больших кабелей в передней части машины? В инструкции написано неправильно для алюминия.
@@ScottRods я поставил обратную полярность, где буква s я ставлю 200a и аргон 0.45 и все равно без успешно. Подскажите ручные настройки какие выбрать для буквы m, скорость подачи напряжение,, какие у вас стоят
@@ScottRods мой друг я разобрался с настройками, вот моё видео ua-cam.com/users/shortsjpKPu8MpZWo?feature=share но сварка алюминия не особо хороша, а вот железо варит хорошо
DCEN stands for direct current electrode negative
Ok, I was close, actually I was opposite, lol.
No service from China Dave, just boxes. You got a bad box. On the other hand you are getting to have a real bitchin' welding station going on 👍
What are you talking about, You have lots of practice aluminum hanging on the wall (in the form of a ladder) You should customize it with texture grip rungs 😁
Hahahaha, I looked at them for a few minutes.
Maybe you should e accepted the new welder and given it away at your next sub milestone??
I was tempted, but hey, gift-horse and all that.
Sorry I didn't see this a year ago. ALL MIG WELDING IS ELECTRODE POSITIVE. THE WORK CLAMP IS NEGATIVE. You reverse this for flux core. FLUX CORE IS NOT MIG. I'm cracking myself up. Go to Miller MIG settings calculator. Just Google it. It will say not recommended, but it will give you spray arch setting. MIG welding aluminum has a hissing sound because it's a spray transfer. Most people try to weld it with too short of a wire stick out. It burns back to the tip and clogs it, the birds nests at the drive rolls. I taught myself to MIG aluminum in the 80s with a Lincoln SP100 110 volt MIG welder. I repaired VW transmission cases for a transmission shop. Roughly 5 a week. Try 3/16 material, 23 volts, 425 inches per minute, then go up or down on the wire from there. Push the wire and have 3/4 inch stick out. I hope that helps.
Also flux core needs twice as much stickout as MIG. it's not a short arc like mig. It needs space for the flux to release and shield the weld. Go slow, keep a long stickout (wire length), and drag the the wire. If it slags, it drags.
So it wasn't perfect! Even the best welders were new at one point. Practice,practice, practice! I've heard mig welding aluminum isn't so easy.
I was pre-warned, but did I listen??? lol.
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