Welding Bear
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Hi guys, hope you're well.
So. Got myself a Clarke 135TE MIG welder. Never welded before and had my first ever go today.
The images you're about to see are pretty gross so please don't mock me too much lol
I replaced my girlfriends drivers front door as it had a small bump so knowing I was going to learn welding I kept the door to practise on. Got the door chopped up with a cutting disc last week.
The thickness is 0.8mm so pretty thin.
Sadly I don't have a workshop to do this in and my garage is over flowing with crap so had to do it outdoors and I'm thinking that this may have played a big part in the trouble I was having, but I'll get to that in a sec.
I fired the welder up and went in the recommended settings. Straight away blew a hole ha ha. I practised on the different settings and was most comfortable with 1 minimum setting with wire speed at 3.
First practise run...
Then things got worse. I just couldn't seem to get a comfortable setting coupled with a correct angle of the tip.
Worst believe it or not was about to come. I was about to lose the light so I thought I would have a go at welding two pieces together. My welds all came out looking rusty and I just couldn't get a nice buzzing sound. . . Just cracking and spitting.
So I have had a good long think and I reckon I ran outta gas for that join. Would you agree? Could wind have played a major part in not being able to get a good continuous buzz? Any info or help you could give would be great
Many thanks
Steve
So. Got myself a Clarke 135TE MIG welder. Never welded before and had my first ever go today.
The images you're about to see are pretty gross so please don't mock me too much lol
I replaced my girlfriends drivers front door as it had a small bump so knowing I was going to learn welding I kept the door to practise on. Got the door chopped up with a cutting disc last week.
The thickness is 0.8mm so pretty thin.
Sadly I don't have a workshop to do this in and my garage is over flowing with crap so had to do it outdoors and I'm thinking that this may have played a big part in the trouble I was having, but I'll get to that in a sec.
I fired the welder up and went in the recommended settings. Straight away blew a hole ha ha. I practised on the different settings and was most comfortable with 1 minimum setting with wire speed at 3.
First practise run...
Then things got worse. I just couldn't seem to get a comfortable setting coupled with a correct angle of the tip.
Worst believe it or not was about to come. I was about to lose the light so I thought I would have a go at welding two pieces together. My welds all came out looking rusty and I just couldn't get a nice buzzing sound. . . Just cracking and spitting.
So I have had a good long think and I reckon I ran outta gas for that join. Would you agree? Could wind have played a major part in not being able to get a good continuous buzz? Any info or help you could give would be great
Many thanks
Steve