Just practice, practice, practice. I had to of gone through at least a 100 coupons practicing each method of welding before I got confident doing them for work. Although im still not the biggest fan of oxy, but damn I can lay some pretty welds on it. Tig is by far the best imo.

First tig ever.

 

Nice looking for a first pass. Open root? Vertical or overhead?

Some eyewash stations I'm building for the sort line at work..

 

Oops I spilled my stack of dimes..

 

Not dissing you. Just a question. It appears some material is missing and the vertical part is actually smaller at the edges of the weld. Is this normal?

 

It's undercut.

 

Not exactly sure what that means but I assume the rectangle part was already that shape.

 

It got undercut because the extreme heat in the puddle pulled some material from above it into the puddle.

 

It was I believe a 5/16 root (used filler wire to set the gap) and verticle. My ober head I is getting better but not all the way there

 

Ahh yes, undercut. The biggest pain in my ***

 

My custom gas tank skid.

 

Front hitch built out of a 96 Chevy rear frame channel and other random bits I had lying around.

 

Turned my 212 into a stack of cash, 252 gets to do all the welding now.

 

A syncrowave 200 ll do you good.

 

Been considering a tig setup.. maybe..

 

TIG welded this for a customer the other day

Using 312 stainless steel filler rod