Yes, but his parents have paid a builder to do the job and he hasn't done it properly. He’s come on here asking for advice only for you to call him a cheapskate.
Oh and I’m older than you so my pipes are more furred up. I’ve got a job to miss my shoes these days. . :p:laughing:
What, you mean like paying a builder to do a job he clearly hasn't done properly?? :mad:
He says it's leaked from day one and has been redone twice, or did you just not bother to read that bit in your haste to post one of your usual unhelpful replies?
You should not be leaving gaps between the tacks, they need to be overlapped slightly.
Tack - allow to cool slightly - next tack overlapping - etc.
Your aim also needs work, the tacks are all over the place, not central on the joint.
If you're struggling to see, put a sacrificial head torch on...
It's not overlapping tacks as such, that's what we refer to as the "thin metal technique". To get that effect the weld is continuous but the pool is manipulated in a lower case e style.. think this... eeeeeeee .....but with no gaps, each loop overlaps the last one slightly.
It might hold things...
Definitely not "walking the cup", those photos are a technique known as "MIG like TIG", which serves no real purpose other than to get oohs and ahhs from people who only care that welds look pretty. :D
I went to a restaurant last week and the only meal on the menu was badger soup, followed by badger curry and badger ice cream for dessert.
I asked the waiter if there was an alternative but he said "Sorry sir, it's a sett menu" :laughing:
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If size is an issue then you need to be looking at either a “hobby” sized transformer machine that may go to 150A, or an inverter machine which will probably go a bit higher. The only inverter ones you’ll find cheaply are generic Chinese ones with very hit-and-miss reliability.
At 50 amps minimum you’d struggle to weld thin stuff without blowing holes in it.
The mate who told you it’s ok has obviously never tried it. :laughing:
My big welder goes from 40-360A and it’s really hard work on thin stuff, no matter how careful I am.
Seriously, that ERP will pretty much do...