Tried to find this info elsewhere on forum and tutorials but could not.
I can weld thicker black steel and black sheet fairly well now, but whenever I try to weld duragal I find the weld does not 'soak in' like it does with black steel.
Instead it burns (popping and hissing) its way through both sections and depisits a very bulbous ugly weld on the surface. The two metals end up joined, but not very convincingly.
I have played with the setting to no avail. Is it because I and using the wrong type of wire or gas? Or is it technique based.
The guy we get in at work happily welds neatly onto duragal but uses a little porta arc welder to do it. Possible with different rods?
Thanks.
Brad
I can weld thicker black steel and black sheet fairly well now, but whenever I try to weld duragal I find the weld does not 'soak in' like it does with black steel.
Instead it burns (popping and hissing) its way through both sections and depisits a very bulbous ugly weld on the surface. The two metals end up joined, but not very convincingly.
I have played with the setting to no avail. Is it because I and using the wrong type of wire or gas? Or is it technique based.
The guy we get in at work happily welds neatly onto duragal but uses a little porta arc welder to do it. Possible with different rods?
Thanks.
Brad