Hi I'm a complete novice but got myself a mig welder to hopefully work on my t25 in the future.
Its a parweld xte 171 and I've had a lot fun playing about with it but have a few questions
On the videos in the learning how to mig weld it shoes similar plate thickness and weld length to what I tried but both my practice plates distorted massively under the heat where as in the video it seems to stay flat?
I was using setting 2 and wire speed 5 with gas flow of 20. Am I using to much power?
These are my first attempts. Another question is should I be trying to get equal bulges on either side of the plate like in the tutorial photo? I was watching another Ed China video on you tube and he showed his weld just slightly showing on the reverse.
Sorry if these have been answered a million times before but I couldn't find anything searching back through forum.
Cheers
Its a parweld xte 171 and I've had a lot fun playing about with it but have a few questions
On the videos in the learning how to mig weld it shoes similar plate thickness and weld length to what I tried but both my practice plates distorted massively under the heat where as in the video it seems to stay flat?
I was using setting 2 and wire speed 5 with gas flow of 20. Am I using to much power?
These are my first attempts. Another question is should I be trying to get equal bulges on either side of the plate like in the tutorial photo? I was watching another Ed China video on you tube and he showed his weld just slightly showing on the reverse.
Sorry if these have been answered a million times before but I couldn't find anything searching back through forum.
Cheers