etpm
Veteran Member
I have a Lincoln SP125+ wire feed welder, AKA a MIG Welder, that I bought used about 20 years ago, that came with with a 150 cubic foot gas cylinder, for $250.00. It still works great. I dug into the circuitry about a year after I bought it to add a gas purge button. So when I'm welding and have let the gun sit idle for a few minutes I can press a button and purge the whip before I start welding again. This helps prevent porosity.
I always thought it would be great to have two small wire feed welders so that one could be set up for MIG and the other for fluxcore.
A friend of mine was given a Lincoln SP100+ many years ago. It had problems so he asked me for help diagnosing it. It was a bad whip. The liner was bad and the switch was bad. The switch contacts in the handle just needed cleaning and the liner was so filthy it really needed replacement. My friend just bought a new whip which fixed all the welding problems.
He then welded himself a gun safe. Did a great job too. And then welded nothing for at least 6 years.
The SP100+ is the same machine as the SP125+, as near as I can tell. When diagnosing his machine for the welding problems it was having I took it apart and it looked like my SP125+. And it welds just like my SP125+. Anyway, my friend called me the other day and he said his welder was just taking up space, and he knew I wanted it, so now it is mine. I just hafta drive a couple hundred miles round trip to pick it up. I am happy to do this. Now I will have the perfect wire feed welder setup for myself. Two small amperage machines, one gas and the other flux, which will get most of the use, and my 300 amp monster Miller wire feed with the two 25 foot push-pull Python whips, one for steel and the other for aluminum, and a 12 foot regular whip.
But I am most excited now about the small Lincoln machine. I use the small machines the most and I love my SP125+ It is a great welder and now I will have 2 of them, one gas and the other fluxcore. So no more changing wire and tips and polarity. Just hafta change which welder I use. Sometimes ya luck out. I have given my friend plenty of good stuff over the years and he has done the same for me. It's reciprocal and has worked very well for both of us.
Eric
I always thought it would be great to have two small wire feed welders so that one could be set up for MIG and the other for fluxcore.
A friend of mine was given a Lincoln SP100+ many years ago. It had problems so he asked me for help diagnosing it. It was a bad whip. The liner was bad and the switch was bad. The switch contacts in the handle just needed cleaning and the liner was so filthy it really needed replacement. My friend just bought a new whip which fixed all the welding problems.
He then welded himself a gun safe. Did a great job too. And then welded nothing for at least 6 years.
The SP100+ is the same machine as the SP125+, as near as I can tell. When diagnosing his machine for the welding problems it was having I took it apart and it looked like my SP125+. And it welds just like my SP125+. Anyway, my friend called me the other day and he said his welder was just taking up space, and he knew I wanted it, so now it is mine. I just hafta drive a couple hundred miles round trip to pick it up. I am happy to do this. Now I will have the perfect wire feed welder setup for myself. Two small amperage machines, one gas and the other flux, which will get most of the use, and my 300 amp monster Miller wire feed with the two 25 foot push-pull Python whips, one for steel and the other for aluminum, and a 12 foot regular whip.
But I am most excited now about the small Lincoln machine. I use the small machines the most and I love my SP125+ It is a great welder and now I will have 2 of them, one gas and the other fluxcore. So no more changing wire and tips and polarity. Just hafta change which welder I use. Sometimes ya luck out. I have given my friend plenty of good stuff over the years and he has done the same for me. It's reciprocal and has worked very well for both of us.
Eric