wire feed noise?

Date 06-11-2004 16:43

I have a millermatic 250 and its makeing some horrible noises. Now I know that its the spool turning on the spool shaft that is makeing the noise. It seems that I am haveing to compinsate for some restriction/drag on my wire speed as well. The best thing to do to solve this problem would be to lube the spool shaft is this something eanyone has run in to? And is lubeing the shaft a bad idea?

By jwright650 (*****)

Date 06-11-2004 17:44

http://www.millerwelds.com/om/o1308n_mil.pdf

I don't think you should lube that shaft. I think it would only solve one problem momentarily and create many more. All that lube would just collect more stuff to bind up the spool. I think you need to take it off and clean it out real good. (When you are welding all that gets magnetized and metallic particles stick to everything.) Put it back and set the tension to where you only have a slight drag on the spool to keep the wire from birdnesting when you let go of the trigger. Look on page 12 of the pdf. file, it shows you the correct way to tension the spool.
Hope this helps,