What Machine for Dual Shield Wire ?

[Wamsutta]

Can dual shield wire be ran on a regular MIG machine ?

 

[Mike W.]

Can dual shield wire be ran on a regular MIG machine ?

We used tons of it in industrial welding. I was always told the duel part of dual shield stood for the protection you get from shielding gas and flux core at the same time.

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[mike13u]

Yes, regular machine. It needs power though. Likes to burn hot...and also a V-knurled drive roll.

 

[pamike]

I use it in an old Millermatic 200. Its .045 wire but due to the flux core I set the machine with .035 settings to get me close. I love the stuff. Great for "farm welding". No porosity issue like with normal mig and dirty metal/poor conditions.

 

[dr_clyde]

You just need a machine with enough grunt that it can get the voltage and wire speed for spray transfer. Unlike most spray transfer, this wire runs on C25 gas like a regular mig wire.

I run it in my Lincoln Invertec V300, but it could be easily run on a MM250 or similar machine.

If you want to run .035" wire, you could run it on a machine like a Lincoln MP210.

Id say a minimum of 240v input with a 200 amp capacity machine. I don't think a 120v machine would have enough balls to run it properly though.

 

[rvieceli]

I'm running a Lincoln Powermig 255 that does a great job with dual shield.

045 and C25

 

[MoonRise]

Some 200+ class machines might be able to run SOME dual-shield wires. Both 'type' and size matter.

But a 250-class machine will usually be able to run almost any dual-shield (or solid, or whatever) wire. Maybe not all diameters of all type of wires, but usually enough choices that you can get the job done.

Won't be able to run the 3/32" (2.4 mm) or 1/8" (3 mm) wires. Those run around the 500 amp range, give or take. And can put down 20+ lbs/hr of metal.