Installation, Wire drive configuration, Warning – Lincoln Electric PRO IM10031-A User Manual

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A-5

INSTALLATION

LN-25™ PRO

A-5

WIRE DRIVE CONFIGURATION

(See Figure A.2)

CHANGING THE GUN RECEIVER
bUSHING

ELECTRIC SHOCK can kill.

• Turn the input power OFF at the

welding power source before instal-
lation or changing drive rolls and/or
guides.

• Do not touch electrically live parts.
• When inching with the gun trigger, electrode

and drive mechanism are "hot" to work and
ground and could remain energized several sec-
onds after the gun trigger is released.

• Do not operate with covers, panels or guards

removed or open.

• Only qualified personnel should perform mainte-

nance work.

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Tools required:

• 1/4" hex key wrench.
Note: Some gun bushings do not require the use of

the thumb screw.

1. Turn power off at the welding power source.
2. Remove the welding wire from the wire drive.
3. Remove the thumb screw from the wire drive.
4. Remove the welding gun from the wire drive.

5. Loosen the socket head cap screw that holds the

connector bar against the gun bushing.

Important: Do not attempt to completely
remove the socket head cap screw.

6. Remove the outer wire guide, and push the gun

bushing out of the wire drive. Because of the pre-
cision fit, light tapping may be required to remove
the gun bushing.

7. Disconnect the shielding gas hose from the gun

bushing, if required.

8. Connect the shielding gas hose to the new gun

bushing, if required.

9. Rotate the gun bushing until the thumb screw hole

aligns with the thumb screw hole in the feed plate.
Slide the gun receiver bushing into the wire drive
and verify the thumb screw holes are aligned.

10. Tighten the socket head cap screw.
11. Insert the welding gun into the gun bushing and

tighten the thumb screw.

GUN RECEIVER BUSHING

LOOSEN TIGHTEN

THUMB SCREW

OUTER WIRE GUIDE

SOCKET HEAD
CAP SCREW

CONNECTOR BLOCK

GUN RECEIVER BUSHING

LOOSEN TIGHTEN

THUMB SCREW

OUTER WIRE GUIDE

SOCKET HEAD
CAP SCREW

CONNECTOR BLOCK

WARNING

PROCEDURE TO INSTALL DRIVE ROLLS
AND WIRE GUIDES

• Turn the input power OFF at the

welding power source before instal-
lation or changing drive rolls and/or
guides.

• Do not touch electrically live parts.
• When inching with the gun trigger, electrode

and drive mechanism are "hot" to work and
ground and could remain energized several sec-
onds after the gun trigger is released.

• Do not operate with covers, panels or guards

removed or open.

• Only qualified personnel should perform mainte-

nance work.

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1. Turn power off at the welding power source.
2. Release the idle roll pressure arm.
3. Remove the outer wire guide by turning the knurled

thumbscrews counter-clockwise to unscrew them
from the feed plate.

4. Rotate the triangular lock and remove the drive

rolls.

5. Remove the inner wire guide.
6. Insert the new inner wire guide, groove side out,

over the two locating pins in the feed plate.

7. Install a drive roll on each hub assembly secure

with the triangular lock.

8. Install the outer wire guide by aligning it with the

pins and tightening the knurled thumbscrews.

9. Close the idle arm and engage the idle roll pressure

arm. Adjust the pressure appropriately.

WARNING

FIGURE A.2

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