Complete noob first weld - Gasless MIG

[Brettguise]

Never ever used a welder, picked up my old exhaust that appeared clean enough presume its safe to weld that? Anyway ran a few lines along it. I don't really know what im looking for lol. I had the ampage on the second setting and I don't even know what the wire feed was like. Turned out like the image. Labelled each weld. I felt I got a little better with the flow but don't know if they are utter crap or not lol.

 

[Wozzaaah]

Throw that rubbish in the skip and get some clean, uncoated steel to play with.
That exhaust will be aluminium coated which is one of the reasons why those welds look awful.

 

[Brettguise]

Throw that rubbish in the skip and get some clean, uncoated steel to play with.
That exhaust will be aluminium coated which is one of the reasons why those welds look awful.

Thanks for the brutal honesty haha. I will be picking some mild steel steel up Thursday to have a play with. Hopefully then it won't be so awful haha.

 

[Robotstar5]

Thanks for the brutal honesty haha. I will be picking some mild steel steel up Thursday to have a play with. Hopefully then it won't be so awful haha.

Get something like 3mm thick to learn on, any thinner and you will be blowing holes practicing.