after some decorating today i thought i would have another tinker with the welder. tried to mend it late yesterday but it still played up, so i realy took it apart this time. seems the plastic clamp bit is not holding the wire liner tight enough, so when the wire is feeding through it pushes the liner up the torch hose(!?!) here comes the
idea bodge to try and cure it. i pulled the liner out a little and wrapped some masking tape around it so when i pushed it back it it stopped. also put acouple of turns of tape around liner where the clamp holds onto it.
i've now welded up some of the floor and all seems well at the moment.
ok that last one was a bit much!!!!!!