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Originally Posted by green 4 acres
I have a lincoln 225 arc that fell off the back of a truck . it is the older copper coils type and works great . a harbor frt. 151 mig ,I use the most
a 120amp HRB FRT. I bought years ago and use with fluxed wire for moble jobs I also have the $200 TIG inverter unit from HF which I never mastered yet but does weld light steel . without a foot feed or spark start it is tricky to get going -probably need to be 12 to 20 yrs old and chinese- anyone else have it ?
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It's probably a scratch start. Try scratching the tungsten quickly toward the start of your weld. When you are done welding, flick the arc out quickly. The end of your weld will crater but that's the nature of scratch start