RonA
specialist in repairing sealed for life equipment
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As a keen fan of the TV series about Boyd Coddingtons (who I believe is now sadly deceased) hot rod building business in the USA, I'm always trying to watch in the hope of picking up techniques that might help me in the restoration of my own 1934 car.
My welder only turns down to a minimum of 30 amps & a long time ago realised that welds on the thin gauge of car bodywork needed to be "stitched" rather than continuously welded.
However, while watching the programme, I noticed that their welding technique seemed slightly different. The mig wire seemed to come out of the gun fairly slowly & once it contacted the bodywork rapidly formed a molten drop which soon assimilated into the parent metal (high amps?) to give a much flatter weld than I would have expected. Does anybody on the forum know what sort of settings they might be using & how they are achieving this effect?
RonA
My welder only turns down to a minimum of 30 amps & a long time ago realised that welds on the thin gauge of car bodywork needed to be "stitched" rather than continuously welded.
However, while watching the programme, I noticed that their welding technique seemed slightly different. The mig wire seemed to come out of the gun fairly slowly & once it contacted the bodywork rapidly formed a molten drop which soon assimilated into the parent metal (high amps?) to give a much flatter weld than I would have expected. Does anybody on the forum know what sort of settings they might be using & how they are achieving this effect?
RonA