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.
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
@@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
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.
Thanks for taking the time do do the review . Appreciate it.
I have one for like 2 years now and love it
Nice little shop setup dude
The warranty on anything that's eligible cannot be beat.
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.
You are going to be suckin it when you realize you can't get parts for the Vulcan but you can get parts for the Millers and Lincoln. 😮
@@garagekeys 4 plus years and going strong. Used daily and running just like new.
@@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.?
@@garagekeys sounds like your doing good with that machine.
@@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.
There like 928.00 now, I paid 475.00 for mine open box, but the wire won’t feed but a couple seconds very slow on Flux core
Thats what I just paid for mine. Love it though.
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.
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
I have a question when u weld does the gas stay on for a couple of seconds after releasing the trigger
Yes, post flow like a tig
@@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
My roller stops after about 3 seconds of holding the trigger, why?
It is normal, if you do not start an arc, the machine will stop, that is how it is programmed;
Will this work ok on 220 30 amp breaker
Yes it will
Hiw has this welder heald up? Are you still using it?
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.
You get this for 650$. They try to sell it to me for 999$. So with tax and 2 year warranty will cost more than 1000$ more than lincoln
I got mine on ebay as new old stock for $600. The comparable lincoln/miller is $1500.
I never buy warranties on consumer goods.
@@anthonyZarco Lincoln 180 is less than $1000
Is this 110 and 220 or just 220
It is both 110 and 220