Inching The Wire Electrode - EWM Phoenix 301 Progress puls Operating Instructions Manual

Design and function
MIG/MAG welding
5.6.6

Inching the wire electrode

Risk of injury due to welding wire escaping from the welding torch!
The welding wire can escape from the welding torch at high speed and cause bodily
injury including injuries to the face and eyes!
• Never direct the welding torch towards your own body or towards other persons!
Risk of injury due to moving parts!
The wire feed units are equipped with moving parts, which can trap hands, hair,
clothing or tools and thus injure persons!
• Do not reach into rotating or moving parts or drive components!
• Keep casing covers closed during operation!
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• Extend and lay out the torch tube package.
• Unfasten pressure units and fold out (clamping units and counter-pressure rollers will automatically flip
upwards).
• Unwind welding wire carefully from the wire spool and insert through the wire inlet nipple over the drive
roller grooves and the guide pipe into the capillary tube and Teflon core using guide pipe.
• Press the clamping element with the counter pressure roller back downwards and fold the wire units
back up again (wire electrode should be in the groove on the drive roller).
The clamping pressure must be set on the adjusting nuts of the pressure units so that
the wire electrode is conveyed but will still slip through if the wire spool jams.
The clamping pressure for the front rollers (viewed from the direction of the feed) should always
be slightly higher than that of the rear rollers.
• Press the wire inching button until the wire electrode projects out of the welding torch.
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Pressure units
Clamping units
Wire feed nipple
Guide tube
Capillary tube or plastic core with support tube, depending on the torch
equipment
CAUTION
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Figure 5-8
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09.08.2010