Bought a cheap welder from Harbor Freight. Its a 90amp flux wire. Going to shorten my bumper brackets and started cutting the wrong side! So I welded it back.... Is it welded??? Any advice, criticism, be gentle please!

 

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Sorry thought it loaded

 

U can try making small circular motions and keep a nice short arc or u can do zig zags and hold each edge of the plate and slowly move down your workpiece but watch your travel speed. Its hard for me to explain it with word but i could show u better in person but im sure others here will explain better with words

 

Good show for your 1st weld. Your next will be even better.
Now grind it out again and brush both surfaces of any soot from the 1st go round.
Turn up your heat a little more. Point you nozzle about 10 - 15 deg in the direction you are heading. Pop down your helmet and go again trying to maintain heat into both pieces. You may have to weave a little, very little. Not too fast a pace laying an even bead behind you. Knock off the slag from the flux and post another pic. Practice. You will get better and better.

 

I found what works best for is to use the "lower case e" pattern, basically just draw a continuous string of eeeeee's. Seems to get good penetration and looks the cleanest. This is coming from a very novice welder.

 

Thanks guys! The circles and"e's" make sense. I was going slow and straight till the gap was filled!

 

Had someone to weld but I can't afford it anymore! I picked up some Yj bumpers cheap, just gotta make them fit the way I want.

 

For flux welding the best motion is simply to just go straight, or use a small \/\/\/\ motion but otherwise if you make motions it in most cases will contaminate the weld pool. The patterns talked about above are great for mig being that its a much cleaner process.
For your first weld it looks like you need to run hotter and be a little more consistent with your speed along with spread the weld evenly on each price you are welding together. Also prep is big, any mill scale or coatings on the metal need to be removed at the weld site before you start otherwise the current won't flow even and consistent.
I started with the exact same welder as you are now. You have a good start and the best way to get better at welding is to just weld more and more till you get it down.
Good luck!!

 

Not bad for a for a first weld like mentioned above turn the heat up more and focus the wire doing weaving back and forth onto each peice go slow watch the puddle once you see a molten puddle forming more down the peice more just take your time and youll get better heres a pic of my weld ive been welding for about 2 years and about 5 months on my lincoln 125 pro mig this is my first attempt at the puddle effect this metal was 3/16 thick

 

This looks real good! I was waiting to long for the puddle, and my welder was set on low.

 

crank the heat all the way up and run ur wire speed at about 50% with flux core you dont wanna do much more than a vvvv type of weave and try and leave alittle gap with lower powered welders it will help a lot with penatration, i run sheilded flux core every day at work and its diffrent contolling the puddle compared 2 mig

 

Got the speed to about%50, mine has a low and hi. Tomorrow I will run it on high. Gonna finish my brackets. Really though, I want expecting so much advice! This really helps

 

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