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I suggest you follow the tutorials and cut down on the caffeine 
Practice laying some smooth welds on flat plate before trying anything positional.
Practice laying some smooth welds on flat plate before trying anything positional.
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Hmmm - well it's an improvement over the tacks in as much that there is more weld there! I don't want to sound harsh, but there is still room for improvement. What sort of welder is it? Looks like gasless from the spatter?
Keep on practicing, and you'll get there - the last thing you need is your buggy falling to bits around your ears when you hit a bump!
Keep on practicing, and you'll get there - the last thing you need is your buggy falling to bits around your ears when you hit a bump!
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The problems I see are:
Gasless.. resulting in all the spatter covering everywhere
Power: Not sure of the minimum setting you have but looks a bit fierce
Skill: You are trying to weld a shape that takes experience to follow the curve
It will probably hold but it's appearance leaves a lot to be desired, as mentioned you would improve practicing on some 2mm or 3mm flat first, getting used to torch angle and moving with the weld.
If your machine can run on gas then thats an advantage worth doing, even if you used a pub bottle of CO2
Gasless.. resulting in all the spatter covering everywhere
Power: Not sure of the minimum setting you have but looks a bit fierce
Skill: You are trying to weld a shape that takes experience to follow the curve
It will probably hold but it's appearance leaves a lot to be desired, as mentioned you would improve practicing on some 2mm or 3mm flat first, getting used to torch angle and moving with the weld.
If your machine can run on gas then thats an advantage worth doing, even if you used a pub bottle of CO2
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This is good advice mate.
I would take 1 day out of your life....spend half of that day watching as many youtube tutorials as possible. Dont be tempted to go out and play, just keep watching, learning and sucking in all that information and learning the techniques. Then spend the other half of the day out there putting into practice what you have learned. You will be surprised how much you can learn and improve on in just one day....If you stick to it.
Oh and a little less coffee too
You will get there with practice. Dont try and run before you can walk
Enjoy your day to yourself.
I suggest you follow the tutorials and cut down on the caffeine
Practice laying some smooth welds on flat plate before trying anything positional.
I would take 1 day out of your life....spend half of that day watching as many youtube tutorials as possible. Dont be tempted to go out and play, just keep watching, learning and sucking in all that information and learning the techniques. Then spend the other half of the day out there putting into practice what you have learned. You will be surprised how much you can learn and improve on in just one day....If you stick to it.
Oh and a little less coffee too
You will get there with practice. Dont try and run before you can walk
Enjoy your day to yourself.
Hi Evo
I am sorry to say but the only thing I can think of is John Merick when I look at that.
I have just had a go at tig welding after 10 years and was feeling a little down.
But now I think may be some hope for me yet.
I have been welding on and off for 35 years, arc, gas , mig, tig spot.
If anyone can do it its not worth doing, take your time and you will get the nack.
Thanks Vpug
I am sorry to say but the only thing I can think of is John Merick when I look at that.
I have just had a go at tig welding after 10 years and was feeling a little down.
But now I think may be some hope for me yet.
I have been welding on and off for 35 years, arc, gas , mig, tig spot.
If anyone can do it its not worth doing, take your time and you will get the nack.
Thanks Vpug
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I have no personal experience of your welder, or any other gassless one for that matter, but from what I have heard they run hotter than gas migs, and this MAY give you some headaches with the thickness of your steel.
As said above, if you can convert it to run with gas then give that a try - you should find it much easier, but don't waste your time with disposable gas bottles, get a refillable one.
Take the advice about following the tutorials, and practice LOADS on flat steel before you try anything on round tubing. There are quite a few guys on here who joined the forum as raw novices, and quickly learned the ropes and produced some brilliant jobs in a very short time, so there's no reason why you shouldn't do the same!
Good luck and let us know how you get on!
As said above, if you can convert it to run with gas then give that a try - you should find it much easier, but don't waste your time with disposable gas bottles, get a refillable one.
Take the advice about following the tutorials, and practice LOADS on flat steel before you try anything on round tubing. There are quite a few guys on here who joined the forum as raw novices, and quickly learned the ropes and produced some brilliant jobs in a very short time, so there's no reason why you shouldn't do the same!
Good luck and let us know how you get on!
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If you are not already using one then an autodarking helmet will make a world of difference. Keep at it, you have only got to look through some of the post on forum to see someone in same position as yourself "new to welding" and follow there progress then see fom the dates of there post how time improves there welding. Don't give up yet
No. As previously advised, practice , practice, practice. Don't even think about any buggy building yet as you could end up seriously hurt or hurting someone else. Why not enrol at a local night school, you will learn to weld to a decent enough standard for your buggy build.
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what is the lowest setting on that mig
if it's like another post of a silverline 190 again made by giant
it's near 60amps min setting so way too much power for 1.6mm tube
for what you are doing you need to learn to weld as said above but a lot of your problems will be the mig it's not suited to what you are trying to do power settings not low enough on the low end
joining tube needs the tubes to be fish mouthed to fit together so no gaps all the way rounds you would be better using Box section better to weld and no need to fishmouth the joints
all a big learning curve you dont want your buggy to collapse on landing as it's you that will be collapsing with it not a good idea
if it's like another post of a silverline 190 again made by giant
it's near 60amps min setting so way too much power for 1.6mm tube
for what you are doing you need to learn to weld as said above but a lot of your problems will be the mig it's not suited to what you are trying to do power settings not low enough on the low end
joining tube needs the tubes to be fish mouthed to fit together so no gaps all the way rounds you would be better using Box section better to weld and no need to fishmouth the joints
all a big learning curve you dont want your buggy to collapse on landing as it's you that will be collapsing with it not a good idea
