How to add a Spool Gun to the Yeswelder Mig 205-DS !!!⚡ Full Mod Walkthrough
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2022
- This was a fun project I got myself into, adding a spool gun to the Yeswelder Mig 205DS - I go over EVERYTHING you need to do to make it happen for your welder. Proceed at your own risk, This may or may not void your warranty.
I forgot to mention this mod WILL work on the 250 pro welder also!
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I let yeswelder know that I did this mod, and they seemed quite surprised haha. Maybe in the future they will start adding the capability to their welders!
Nice to see you did it 👍
Nice work 🙂
Thanks Mike! I hit a few roadblocks for sure but it works!
Nice work Dan. That is a really cool mod
Thanks!
nice work dude! thanks for sharing!
Thank you sir! I saw a similar mod on a different welder, I didnt care for how they did it with the euro plug(I didnt want to have to coil in my mig wire) so I came up with this. It was a leap of faith but it turned out quite well. I am working on sourcing some thinner and thicker aluminum so I can do more testing and hopefully come up with a chart to post
Best comprehensive vid on the spool conversion I have watched. Super appreciate the links to the parts. Great job. Please leave out the music in your future vids!!! (or at least mute it when you are talking.)
I usually turn it down when it bleeds over. Been awhile since I made this one so I cant even recall which part. Thanks for the kind words, check my pinned comment for a link to a video that took it one step farther with speed control!
This is awesome, I have been looking at this welder and wish it had a spool gun option .
it was a little tedius but hopefully this video helps anyone that wants to try it, I did all the guesswork haha
nicely done adding that spool gun ,i'm not a welder and i don't own any welders but i've watched every single youtube video about the Yeswelder 205DS and i'm pretty positive that you can manually adjust the wire speed "atleast on the mig gun" i just can't figure out which video that explained that but i know it has a setting to manually adjust the wire speed that was one selling point for the 205DS over the TOOLIOM 3 in 1 MIG Welder when i was researching which welder to get
Amps=Wire speed. thats how, but it dials the volts up also, which you can tune a little bit with the +- feature, I talked about that alot on my 205ds review
Thanks for this..got it hooked up and running on the first try! What I did differently was put the switch inside the cabinet in front of the spool and the mil connector on the front in the little bit of room I could find..
That was my thought as well to keep it from getting damaged on the outside.
@@joesacher3729 Yup, was a little tight but can be done.
Hella experiment 👍☮ from NE Ohio
For Science!
im working on a similar mod for the mp200 firstest. Tt does not have a manual mode, only the synergic so im working with a pwm motor control as you stated. Im waiting on my solid state solenoid so the trigger activates the motor regardless of what the welder outputs tot he motor. The only thing I really need to figure out now is the voltage amperage which you have helped greatly with. Thanks, the community appreciates you! Also, hats awesome you mentioned the mod to them and they liked it!
From what I understand, the Firstess is not far off from functioning the same way as the 205, in theory I cant see any reason this wouldnt work unless it doesnt have the different mig/mag settings to be able to get the volt to amp ratio right for the feed speed. If you are using an adjustable/external 24v power supply then it should be cake, just get the voltage in the right range and set the speed yourself
@Flawed Offroad I don't believe it has a Mag setting., just mig and Flux but I can adjust the voltage plus or minus 5 volts so we'll see if it gets me close enough to your settings!
How did it turn out?
I'd like to see you make a vid using the euro connection spool gun.
Theres another video on here of someone doing that. Its not in my budget to buy another one, the same general principles apply. other than the switch will already be wired and the gas will go through the machine
I had a longevity tig, the pedal never worked , when I did alum tig I just did it halfway, as heat buildup started to show I stopped and came at it from the other direction, bit of a hassle, I never did learn to use a pedal.
Thanks for the video, do you think you could do this conversion on the yeswelder flux 135?
i would think you would want more power. something thats 220v. aluminum is picky it needs a good burst of heat to get started. Lets be honest it didnt even work the best on the 205 due to not having wire speed settings but I made it work
Nice upgrade! I JUST (literally less than an hour ago) used my Mig 205-DS welder for the first time. Actually first time welding at all and now I have the bug! I had a thought for your voltage issue. Could you run a variable resistor to the spool gun to control the voltage independent of what the Yeswelder is preprogramed for? Keep the settings you have, but turn the resister to say 90% to better control the power. I'm not an electrician and a noob welder, but it makes sense in my tiny brain. lol
Im not sure if that would work or if it would damage the iinverter
ruclips.net/video/mSMY657JJKE/видео.html
Have you tried the new Teflon MIG gun liner from Yes Welder that runs aluminum?
Its only for the mig 250 pro. It might fit the 205 but the 205 isnt going to have the settings for it
Was there not a good place you could have mounted the switch for the motor disconnect to the front panel so you could avoid having to disconnect it when opening the case?
Not really it’s all like ribbed plastic venting, the only flat spot is where all the other leads were. I could have rigged it that way but it would have looked dumb. The back has room but I didn’t really want it on the back
Ah...spoke too soon. I see the case is extended in the front so a tougher mod. Great stuff! Love the ingenuity :)
Very impressive. If only our politicians were as intelligent as you.
Lol thanks I guess😅
Can u please do some thinner aluminum
And add settings
That was the only aluminum I had was 1/8” and 1/4”, other than maybe an old license plate. I’m planning on building an aluminum rack soon but it’s about fourth on the project list. Message me on Instagram and I can get you a clip of trying some thinner gauge
Would you be able to use a connector like whats on the mig gun? So you unscrew the mig and attach the spool gun, so the gas is controlled on/off
I answered that a couple times in the video. Yes you can but it will be at the cost of it being a pain in the butt to switch back-and-forth between Mig and spool. I wanted quick switching.
@@FlawedOffroad I apologize, I'm kind of dum. I'm looking at a euro style gun, (I don't mind having to unhook the mig gun) this way I would have power and gas. Now do you think I need the toggle switch or could I just tap into the drive motor output wires to the 4 pin plug. I honestly don't care it the mig drive rollers are also turning when triggering the spool gun.
@@JB_Machine you could just tap in yes, but it would be splitting the voltage between both sets of rollers and I can’t promise they won’t run slower than supposed to.
@@FlawedOffroad Didn't think about that, probably correct since it would be turning both sets of rollers. Thanks
@@FlawedOffroad you happen to have a list of settings that worked for 1/8 to 3/8 material?
You think you can turn that welder from lift tig to HF and add the finger trigger
I’m not sure. it’s ability to tig is sort of an extra feature and not the focus of the machine, its dc tig only and I assumed hf start only comes on nicer ac/dc machines. (Their 250 pro supposedly has ac tig as does the tig 205ds) Sky is the limit if you can get ahold of one of the carbon rod boards. If you have one laying around try it 😅 I’m not sure what the required supply voltage is on the HF board. My plasma cutter has one in there.
Might I recommend you check out my buddy @mike festiva channel he does lots of welder videos and might know the answer better
Here is how to add speed control to the welder and the spool gun, from @keegantheveganat0r
ruclips.net/video/mSMY657JJKE/видео.html
If you would rather use the Euro plug spool gun you can do that as well, you will still need to wire a plug for the 24v to control drive wheels, and it will be alot more time consuming to swap between mig and spool.
I just got my 205D and like to do a similar mod in the future. Why do you say it would be more time consuming to switch. I was thinking of using the Yes spool gun add a 24 volt connector and a switch as you had done. Wouldn't that allow the gas to flow through the euro connector as the MIG gun does? Let me know if I'm missing something. Thanks for taking the leap, awesome video!
@@Ski706 Yeah you can certainly run it that way but then if you want to switch back to mig you have to hook a different tank up to the back of the machine, re-spool your Mig wire, etc. at the time of filming this yes welder didn’t have a spool gun they came out with it right as I finish this video. You’re going to want 100% argon for the spool gun but 75/25 for normal mig. That’s why I did it this way so that it was quick change
@@FlawedOffroad Ah, now I understand, thanks for the quick reply and keep the video's coming!
A follow on question if it's okay, do you run your welder on 110VAC or 220VAC?
@@Ski706 220v 99% of the time
what color was the positive and what color was the negative
This was a couple years ago I don’t remember the colors of anything. If it doesn’t say it in the video then I won’t be of much help lol. This set up works but honestly it is really hard to adjust to get it to weld good and you’re much better off just getting the 250 pro that you can plug a spool gun right into it’s only like 100 bucks more than the 205 DS. This was a harebrained science project at best to see if I could make it work
Can this spool gun be used to weld nils steel? I bought the yeswelder 205ds so I could learn tig, but I really love to use a spool gun for mild steel. Thanks G
That is a whole lot of work to use it on mild steel when you can just put normal steel wire through the machine. 🧐🧐🧐
@@FlawedOffroad this is true but I’m getting up there in age and I keep tripping over the wand cable. That’s why I think the spool gun would be easier for me. Thanks can I rig it up like you did & just put steel wire in the spool?
@@gerrynewton3071 spool gun has the same length cable to trip over….
I really don’t know. The spool gun is designed for soft aluminum wire, not steel wire. I imagine it will work but I make no promises
@@FlawedOffroad yes the cable will be just as long but not as thick and don’t have to be near as carful with not kinking the line. I do see your point.thanks G
@@gerrynewton3071 The cable is just as thick cause its a power lead and gas line and trigger wire all in 1 cord. Im not tryin to rain on your parade but its the truth. its also harder to weld with a spool gun its big and bulky.
I don't understand, I thought mig was DC but alum needs AC.
Is the stock mig gun feed AC ?
aluminum needs AC on tig, but on a spool gun it just runs dc (flipped polarity from steel wire)
@@FlawedOffroad ahh ok, I get it, reverse the polarity from steel.
Which model do you have Yeswelder Tig 205 or Tig 250? Thanks
Neither, it’s the mig 205-DS
🤣 so you thought you'd catch him with Tig or Tig trick🤣😂.
And his reply was so polite, which part of Ireland are your ancestors from , London ?
MAG is not Mig Argon. It's Metal Active Gas which means CO2 or O2 or some othe active (non-inert) gas
Interesting.. on the two welders I have the mag is listed for 75/25 and the Mig is labeled for 100% CO2, hence why I said what I said
Man, MacGyver ain't got nothing on you.
He’s my son 😂
They told me I couldn't do this
They told me that too, then I sent them the video haha. Their PR person on Instagram was quite surprised when I showed them.
The thing is, I can’t guarantee that you won’t damage the welder by doing this but so far so good for me! That’s probably why they say you can’t, if someone damages it or messes up they don’t want to be liable. Probably a warranty voided type mod