I'm starting to do cut & shuts on the small amount of rust on my Series 2A chassis & have decided to re-commission my MIG welder after having tried to get by with a stick welder & a MAP butane burner with hopeless results!
I have some biggish work to do on the bulkhead so it's probably time anyway.
It's a fairly old m/c & it has a 15mm diameter spindle for the wire spools.
I can certainly run mini-spools but they are causing feed problems: the wire seems to get tighter & tighter the nearer it gets to the end & then stops feeding altogether.
The one 5kg spool I got with the m/c worked beautifully.
Has anyone seen an adaptor that fits on the 15mm spindle so that I can load a modern 5kg spool? Ref photo.
I guess I can get one turned down from an aluminium rod or even hard plastic if I had to.
Have you tried knocking the centre out of your old 5kg spool? Failing that pack out the centre of the smallest spool (cut one side off) with rolled cardboard and stuff it in the new 5kg roll.
thats what I have done (sort of) when buying the small rolls of S/steel wire and the small spool not wide enough to be turned when pulled through. Just cut and shunt the guts out of one of the left over big spools. Im sure you will be able to make it work
I rummaged thru my hole saws & found one a bit smaller than the bore of the MIG wire spool.
I cut 2 discs from a scrap piece of 6x1 treated pine then joined them together with duct tape till they were a tight fit in the spool.
The spool spins on the pine so it will wear out eventually but I made a bush from some scrap pipe that I can fit if necessary. I will need to buy a timber drill bit to suit the bush when/if needed.
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