Thanks for your comments Malcolm. I'll give the circular stuff a try next. The no gas pix were simply no gas and ordinary wire. I hadn't realised the gas had run out at the end of the 'getting there' bead (you can see the oxidation) and tried another weld resulting in the mess as shown! When I...
Thanks for the info re gas. I have been using CO2 and while it works ok, if a little spattery (is that a word?), it doesn't produce as neat a weld as the argon/CO2 mix. I will be onto BOC next week. I gather that their size X cylinder of Argoshield Light is equivalent to 240 of the DIY store...
Lol, I guess I got lucky. Higher authority suffered damage to her tube steel framed armchair (she didn't see me jumping on it! ) which has been sucessfully repaired leaving me up to the ears in brownie points, not to mention a new welder!
Seriously, it's worth practising anyway, and you will...
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What a welcome site!
I'm new to MIG and am just going through the early stages of learning. A friend gave me a not too rusty car exhaust. This has been great for drawing beads across the box. I also find it a good excercise to saw the piping section almost through with a hack saw...