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Jiles

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I have a Hobart Handler 135. As many of you know, when you change to a new roll of .030 wire, about 5 foot of wire is wasted. Seem like there could be a way to attach this wire to the new roll. I have about 15 such scrap pieces that I have saved.
Any ideas??
 
At the frame plant, the weld techs would change out
1000-lb rolls of .045" ER70S-6 for the weld robots,
and they had a process that appeared to weld or
solder the wire together, then they ground it down
with something like a Dremel so it would feed...and
about 99% of the time it worked.
 
Use it for tie wire,or put it in the scrap,Do you realize that 5 feet of mig wire wouldn't amount more than a dozen stubs left from stick electrodes. I use a 44 lb spool and sometimes 2 a month plus will burn at least 50lbs of stick rod a month. I probably throw away 5 lbs of wire, due to stuck contact tips and bird nests and 10 lbs of stubs in that time. They bring 12 Cents a pound for scrap.You can't save everything.
 
(quoted from post at 01:01:21 12/13/10) Use it for tie wire,or put it in the scrap,Do you realize that 5 feet of mig wire wouldn't amount more than a dozen stubs left from stick electrodes. I use a 44 lb spool and sometimes 2 a month plus will burn at least 50lbs of stick rod a month. I probably throw away 5 lbs of wire, due to stuck contact tips and bird nests and 10 lbs of stubs in that time. They bring 12 Cents a pound for scrap.You can't save everything.
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It's no big deal and probably only a few dollars could be saved over a lifetime of welding ---I was just curious.
 
Look at a chart that shows how many inches of wire per pound MIG wire is. How can you only have 5 ft. wasted? I've never seen a MIG gun that's only 5 ft. long. The piece left over when the reel runs out is probably about .001 of the roll of wire. I bet if you put it on a weigh scale, it wouldn't even register. I can see it being useful on 1000 pound rolls when you have 20 punds of wire still left on the roll but don't want to run out. Dave
 
When I was still working I was able to get those scrap 1000 pound rolls that still had some wire left because they didn't want to run out on a long run or for whatever reason. Some of them had over 100 lbs left on them. I modified a garage door opener so that I could mount the empty roll from my welder and rolled up a number of good rolls of .035 and .045 wire. I haven't bought any mig wire for the last ten years and also gave my buddies free rolls. The worst part about that is that they just dumped all of those scrap rolls with wire on them in the dumpster
 
Hi Jiles,

Well, as long as you're just curious and you're not actually going to do this, then there is a way to use it. You can hold the leftover wire and feed it into the weld just as you would with TIG or oxy/acet welding filler. (You can also do this with a second stick, or any compatible electrode, while you're stick welding.) Of course if you actually tried it, you would waste a lot of wire getting the settings and the technique right, and that would sort of defeat the purpose, wouldn't it?

Stan
 
Stan, I know a guy that does a lot of specialized TIG and aircraft welding. He uses MIG wire quite often because they don't make small enough TIG wire. Dave
 
135 Fan,

Funny thing is I just saw a 4' gun on eBay this evening. I don't know what that would be used for.

I also use that mig wire for tig welding but I try to use the larger diameter wires.
 
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