Do you listen to everything the 'people said'?

 

Haha no!! But ive talked to a couple people who said welding sheet metal with a stick welder works! So i figured it would!

 

Cherokees are not sheet metal, they're tin cans. Completely different.

What nights are good if I came out and welded/fabbed one night?

 

Bahh. Fine! Well ive gotta figure somethin else out! Because i cant even get a puddke goin on it without dragging it onto the body metal and having it burn it apart

 

And also... pretty much weekends is all im free. I work swing shifts so i work every night. But some help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

Dam that's some ****ty welding man, that aside- what rod you using? Stick just plain sucks for thin ****. But practice makes perfect! Keep welding on scrap and get the feel of it, you'll get it

 

****, its not even welding!! But i am using 6013 and have tried the 3/32 and 5/64 diameter rods to get the amperage low so it wont burn through. And it still does

 

Turn the amps up and practice on thicker stuff

 

Well the thing is, on anything thicker than an 1/8th inch, my welds are really nice, look likee this. But this is my first time on the thin stuff.

 

Oh okay I thought you were just learning how to weld. Its gonna be really hard to weld without blowing through on that thin of metal with a stick. At work I use a stick for everything .5"-2" thick, anything thinner then that I use a mig so I can't help you to much on welding thin stuff with stick...

 

Well thats alright anyway, thanks though. I think ill just try to mig it!

 

ive seen people arc weld thin the thinck ... theyre all guys who have welded for 30 years and probably do it without hassle. They amaze me with stuff like this, but they can and do. they're also smart enough to use a mig when needed. like a long bead such as yours.

but for us normal welders, no, aint gonna happen. mig it and it'll take a couple minutes.

BTW i cant wait to do my own rockers like this. i want to exo-skeleton the lower half of my jeep so im using that as a major tie point.

 

Thats very true. I think i was just taking on something that was a little more involved than i thought! But ill ffind a mig and try my luck then

 

Looks like there's a lot of gap between the rocker &ur tin! Once u get corys MIG try pinch that down onto the metal a little more, then do what he said burn into the rocker & just kiss the sheetmetal with your puddle!

 

Well there wasnt a gap to begin with. But after i melted it away, the gap formed. Pita