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Wire feeder reaches 800 IPM

ESAB has introduced the Warrior® Feed 404 HD, a heavy-duty benchtop wire feeder designed to feed 0.030- to 0.09375-in. wire at speeds of 50 to 800 IPM in applications such as high-volume fabrication, structural steel fabrication, heavy fabrication, and shipbuilding.

The wire feeder’s drive roll design combines two lower gear-driven rollers with two upper idler, smooth-pressure rollers. This design produces less scrubbing of the wire, reducing debris generation by 8 to 12 times compared to a four-roll drive system, says the company. In addition, an upper idler system doesn’t mar the wire, resulting in contact tip life of four to six times longer with cored wires.

Features include gas purge, wire inch, trigger lock (2T/4T control), burnback, slow run-in speed, and the ability to preset wire feed speed and voltage. It has separate digital displays for voltage, wire feed speed, and amperage values.