i am starting at the top and working down, i will try what you suggest. im just using a butt joint, its 3" bsp steel pipe welding on bends etc, it is under low pressure and we dont really have much time to spend on preparing the material but it does need to look pretty. i have been welding for years but i seem a total amateur compared to you guys im welding at 160 - 180 amps is this too high for what im trying to do?hi
well i would say that you may be going at this wrong. it sounds like you are going from the top down, but you want to start at the bottom and go up.
this should make it alot better.
and it would help us if you said what your set up was, roof face, root gap, etc