That's awesome! I bought the same flux 125 welder as my first machine when I was 15 and it's still going strong (19 now). Believe it or not I thought of doing all the same modifications you did a while ago. I never ended up doing it because I got a YesWelder 205 multiprocess machine because I needed to weld some thicker steel, but it's so cool to see someone carried out our idea!
Good job man. It seems that you could even do some light Tig welding with this machine now. Just need a Tig torch with the gas knob and a bottle of gas. You got yourself a nice inexpensive multi-process machine now. I was thinking about doing this on my old transformer 100 amp Chicago electric welder. I already converted it to DCEN with a bridge rectifier and some large capacitors. Thank you for making this video.
Is the Titanium 125 a DCEN electrode/Gun negative ground clamp Positive machine? on the more expensive machines you can manually change it....better smoother welds.
Hey Keith. ALL Flux core welder are DCEN Gun and the ground clamp is the positive. That's the same with all flux core. Flux core doesn't operate on DCEP. These mods were so I could use DCEP Stick welding.
The HF 90-125 Mig Flux core welders older Blue ones & Newer Black ones are Not DCEN There AC output You can convert them to DCEN by Adding a 150amp Rectifier Ground Clamp Positive + & Torch Stinger Negative - You do not Need to Add a Capacitor to those welders just the Rectifier and it will make it weld with way less splitter and Smoother welds .
Learned something new here I think. So wire speed is not wire motion speed, but more…. Wire “burn” speed by adjusting amperage? So there’s no physical wire feed speed when adjusting that control?
Wire speed is both BURN and physical speed. More amperage means it burns faster, and thus it needs to physically feed MORE wire to replenish. So it's both. When I use my modified flux core welder, (Modified to also do "STICK WELDING", I adjust the wire speed to INCREASE amperage/current. Being it's stick, there is no wire. But again, the wire speed control increases amperage/current, but physically also increases the wire speed because the higher amperage makes the wire burn faster and needs to be replenished.
If you say so. For me, putting in a DINZ 25 plug for the ground (positive) clamp has become extremely beneficial. I can now ensure better grounds and even multiple grounds. Thanks for watching the video anyway.
That's awesome! I bought the same flux 125 welder as my first machine when I was 15 and it's still going strong (19 now). Believe it or not I thought of doing all the same modifications you did a while ago. I never ended up doing it because I got a YesWelder 205 multiprocess machine because I needed to weld some thicker steel, but it's so cool to see someone carried out our idea!
That is awesome!
Good job man. It seems that you could even do some light Tig welding with this machine now. Just need a Tig torch with the gas knob and a bottle of gas. You got yourself a nice inexpensive multi-process machine now.
I was thinking about doing this on my old transformer 100 amp Chicago electric welder. I already converted it to DCEN with a bridge rectifier and some large capacitors.
Thank you for making this video.
Thanks for this! A common sense approach. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Great job 👏
Is the Titanium 125 a DCEN electrode/Gun negative ground clamp Positive machine? on the more expensive machines you can manually change it....better smoother welds.
Hey Keith. ALL Flux core welder are DCEN Gun and the ground clamp is the positive. That's the same with all flux core. Flux core doesn't operate on DCEP. These mods were so I could use DCEP Stick welding.
The HF 90-125 Mig Flux core welders older Blue ones & Newer Black ones are Not DCEN There AC output You can convert them to DCEN by Adding a 150amp Rectifier Ground Clamp Positive + & Torch Stinger Negative - You do not Need to Add a Capacitor to those welders just the Rectifier and it will make it weld with way less splitter and Smoother welds .
Learned something new here I think. So wire speed is not wire motion speed, but more…. Wire “burn” speed by adjusting amperage? So there’s no physical wire feed speed when adjusting that control?
Wire speed is both BURN and physical speed. More amperage means it burns faster, and thus it needs to physically feed MORE wire to replenish. So it's both. When I use my modified flux core welder, (Modified to also do "STICK WELDING", I adjust the wire speed to INCREASE amperage/current. Being it's stick, there is no wire. But again, the wire speed control increases amperage/current, but physically also increases the wire speed because the higher amperage makes the wire burn faster and needs to be replenished.
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You could just call it the work clamp.
Shaky old man hands + out of breath while standing still = high degree of reliability
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If you say so. For me, putting in a DINZ 25 plug for the ground (positive) clamp has become extremely beneficial. I can now ensure better grounds and even multiple grounds. Thanks for watching the video anyway.