mr_magicfingers
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I've been waiting for ages for a local college to start a welding course and they finally have. I've now done 2 evenings of my 10 evening welding class at Petroc Tiverton in North Devon and starting to understand the first tiny bit about welding so I'm here for some critique. I brought a few scraps of steel home from class to do a bit of practice on. some 3mm and some 10mm. I've been playing with wire feed speed and, despite watching many youtube vids, still can't quite get the perfect frying bacon sound, so interested to know what folks think of these first few welds.
Getting the wire feed right and also my own hand movement steady is the hardest part i've found, that's why I'm just running bead after bead over the previous ones to try and get that movement practiced. I find it hard to get a steady bead all the way along and have to change hand position part way which is where it goes off line a bit.
I did a bit of infill on a couple of beads, as I found I'd gone off line a bit and went back to fill in some sections to make them more even for the next pass over the top.
My setup is a Portamig 235 with 0.8mm wire and 5% CO2/Argon gas mix.
10mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/pYXH4iR
3mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/ZJQfw6U
Getting the wire feed right and also my own hand movement steady is the hardest part i've found, that's why I'm just running bead after bead over the previous ones to try and get that movement practiced. I find it hard to get a steady bead all the way along and have to change hand position part way which is where it goes off line a bit.
I did a bit of infill on a couple of beads, as I found I'd gone off line a bit and went back to fill in some sections to make them more even for the next pass over the top.
My setup is a Portamig 235 with 0.8mm wire and 5% CO2/Argon gas mix.
10mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/pYXH4iR
3mm plate
https://imgur.com/a/ZJQfw6U