My welds

[stretchie_]

Hi all

After some pointers as a novice.

Was up at the welding course in Lackham last night and was practicing welds and ended up with this. Meet Clive

Here's some of the welds holding him together, it was done with a MIG, I think they are about 180 amp ones there

I can see that the welds seem elongated, does this mean I am going too fast in those areas? I know I still needs lots of practice but am reasonably happy with it, he got a good pulling prodding and smaking with a hammer and he's still together and no cracking or anything.

Thanks for any pointers

 

[gavuk]

If this is toward welding up your disco ,you won't be doing many runs
,better to let them know you need body work, if its towards trailer etc ,then yes ....,maintain your angles,pause at the end and slow down ....
some welds are promising and with the lecturers help you'll get there

 

[shenion]

Elongated welds are the torch angle too low.

 

[stretchie_]

Cheers guys, it's half term next week so not back for two weeks but when I do go back I'm going to take some thin sheet metal I've got, (thanks to Gav) to start on and then hopefully not blow holes in it.

Hi Gav, how you doing, I see you've got your Golf running. I've waved at you a couple of times in passing and then realised you'd have no idea who I was in my bike gear and with a helmet on

; )

Hope all is well

 

[gavuk]

All good this way buddy ,for information ,are you doing a diy course or is there a qualification?,what nights does it run and how much is it costing,can it cover any other process's?tig or arc etc....another local member was asking recently........sorry haven't clocked you on the bike ....Yet

 

[stretchie_]

It is the beginners course, no qualification, although I wouldn't mind doing a basic qualification one, but I would also like to do a basic fibreglassing course but when I google 'Fibreglass course Wiltsire' it just comes back with loads of hits for learning how to do acrylic nails.... NICE!

It's a 10 week course, I do it on Wednesday from 19:00 - 21:00, all the details are here:

http://www.wiltshire.ac.uk/courses/part_time/detail.aspx?ref=LWELDBEG&year=11/12

From reading this I was expecting a classroom style first session and then to go methodically through things as they were listed but you turn up and the fella goes "Who want's to do what then" and when you answer he asks what you are there for why and what do you want to weld and then gives you a quick run down and steer in the right area. So you can do Oxy Welding, ARC welding, Mig, TIG, Oxy cutting or plasma cutting, you just have to say what you want to do.

I've stuck to MIG for the first couple of weeks and then had a go at ARC because those are the two I have access to, I'd like to try the others but think that while I have someone giving me clean scraps of metal that I can practice on and then go ask them for pointers I better stick to the stuff I can then do at home...

I just need to speak to a sparky and see about getting a 20/30amp plug put in the garage, I was trying to set my welder up for a quick job on a mates bike sub frame and kept shutting the fuse for the garage off.



I've got myself a big compressor too Gav : )

 

[gavuk]

Let me know if you need the name of a sparky,
Cheers for the link i'll make sure the fella checks it .
New compressor and welder?.....things are looking up