10-10-2015, 12:20 AM
The good news: After a mere 16 months, I finally got around to welding my Swag press brake together today. 
Still needs to be cleaned up and painted.
The bad news is I fought my MIG welder the whole time because it wasn't feeding wire smoothly and I was getting a lot of burn back and sticking the wire to the contact tip, causing a bunch of unnecessary stops and restarts. By the time I finished it was no longer feeding wire at all. The drive roller just slips on the wire. Either I have a kink in the gun liner somewhere or it has rusted/corroded inside due to sitting around unused for so long.
New liner is on order. It's always something...
Still needs to be cleaned up and painted.
The bad news is I fought my MIG welder the whole time because it wasn't feeding wire smoothly and I was getting a lot of burn back and sticking the wire to the contact tip, causing a bunch of unnecessary stops and restarts. By the time I finished it was no longer feeding wire at all. The drive roller just slips on the wire. Either I have a kink in the gun liner somewhere or it has rusted/corroded inside due to sitting around unused for so long.
New liner is on order. It's always something...
Willie