Cheap spool gun mod

[Frank S]

Needing to do some aluminum mig welding I first tried using the 12 ft gun on my welder. This wasn't going to happen I found out very quickly. Not with 4043 0.035" wire and not with a 12 ft gun, 0.045" 5356 possibly. A 4ft gun with the 4043 maybe.
So going to amazon I found the MBC 200 spool gun completely bare no cable or hose for $29.00 free shipping.
If it works really well fine if not I'm not out a whole lot, I was sure I could at least make it work well enough to do the job required.
IE Ramp mounts on the rear of an Aluminum stepdack trailer
In order to make it work first I hooked up a 16 ft cable, hose and the control wires.
The problem was the gun came with a little spool of its own that I would have to wind the wire on 1/2 lb at a time. the 1 lb standard spool would not fit.
SO about all I had to do was grind a bolt to fit in the mounting hole on the gun find a suitable sleeve to fit the spool and bend the spool brake out of the way enough to accommodate the larger spool