The Vulcan welders are a fine machine! They are incredible!!! Miller and Lincoln can both SUCK IT! The Miller and Lincoln welding equipment isn't made here. Nothing wrong with that. They just don't admit to it. I believe that Jasic makes the Vilcan welders.
@@Joeak74 and like I said when it breaks very little parts available. I had one , broke recently after about 5 years, and well I was not able to get parts. I have a Miller 180 now and the Miller has all the parts available if it ever has issues. Vulcan was a nice machine till it wasn't and there was no parts available to get it going again. Can u say boat anchor.?
@@Joeak74 now that I got the Miller 180 yes I am doing better. Call harbor freight and check for yourself what parts are available for that Vulcan 215 mig machine.
If you put the thickness knob at 3/8 for 3/8" metal or 10, and then look at the setting info on the lid, you will find that the recommenced setting for 0.45 flux core wire is J/8.5. I brought this discrepancy to the attention of Harbor Freight Technical Support but they had to escalate it to a corporate engineer, I understand. Also, another example of a discrepancy, for instance, is the recommended setting for 0.035 solid wire and C100. On the lid for 240 volts for 1/8" it says D4 but if you set the left knob at 1/8" on the front panel to 1/8" the corresponding point is midway between 6 and 7. Are the synergic settings and the manual settings supposed to be so much different? I understand you are supposed to refer to the chart on the lid for the manual settings and for the synergic settings, you go by the orange highlighted thicknesses that are around the thickness knob. Can anyone explain the discrepancies I have found? Thanks.
@@jessechop thanks for the info I thought it was a malfunction on the welder was going to take it back but other than that is a good welder been using a lot n had no problems whith it
I have a lincoln 125sp and love but need more, it welds great. I just noticed it doesn't feed out the wire very fast like my lincoln does when I am running hot and fast. The vulcan seems slow and I am not used to this. Doe yours feed fast when welding 3/16? when I adjust in manual which is all i use, it doesn't move faster really no matter how fast I turn up my speed? should I exchange it? seems to weld fine just not used to slow wire speed when its cranked fast
Mine did just fine on auto set. I day did because last summer the welder quit working. Pretty sure the transformer failed. Anyways, I kinda forgot about this video and guess I need to update it. I would make sure you have plenty of tension on your drive roller and that your spool is not too tight. It may simply be slipping
It is normal, that is how it is programmed; so, if you only press the trigger without iniciating and arc the the roller only feeds wire at slow speed; once the arc starts the rolles speed up to whatever setting you have selected
Kinda glad you asked as I forgot about this video. About a year and a half ago the welder made a loud pop and was dead. I didn't dig into it. I bought an Everlast. Even with the failure the Migmax was a better machine.
