nah just them wierd canadian welders hahahaha jk, i dunno what your weld procedures are there but every thing i weld gets shot with xray so you cant screw up, they call the xray truck the layoff wagon cuz if you drop an xray ur gettin layed off haha

 

Better than my first attempt, but definitely a gorilla weld haha

Just get yourself some scrap and keep doing line after line after line, it's all in the practice. As for moving your hand, personally I do a string of lowercase, cursive "c's", but o's, zig zags, whatever will work as long as you're slow and steady about it.

 

yeah running dual core with co2 as a shielding gas. beautiful welds and strong as can be.

 

Heres the bracket complete. Basically I shorten it by half. Now to make the other one match! Lol

 

clean the slag off and take another picture but it dosent look bad

 

^^^ this!

Looks much better

 

very nice

 

Was going to split the bumper to make it longer, but don't want to look at my sorry welds. Wait till maybe end of year!

 

Slag??? Honestly...please explain. Lol

 

When u lay a bead the protective coating thats on the weld is "slag" chip that off with a chipping hammer then thats your weld

 

Slag is left after welding with flux core gas shielded wire doesnt leave slag

 

Oh, got ya. Thought your were just playing throwing words at me.

 

So i was looking over my bracket, getting ready for the second one and noticed the first one isn't square... Guess I'm gonna get a lot of practice welding!

 

I've had the same welder for a while now and found that with heavier stuff like 3/16th and 1/4, using .035 wire and the machine set to max and 9 for wire speed yields the best results, heating each surface until it liquifies and then connecting them (cursive e technique). I tried using a lower wire speed but the arc holds much better with more flux, and it seems to penetrate better as well.

 

Yup, I went ahead and up the speed to 8 though I was told to go half (sorry guys) and it came out great!