Morning all!
New guy here, just started to weld yesterday with a SIP MigMate 105 turbo borrowed from a friend.
I'm learning to weld as I made the mistake of putting a wire brush against a rust bubble on my Porsche 924 and it turns out a Previous owner ecided that body solder and filler would do for a wheel arch!
So I have cut the rotten plate away and have a gaping hole in my car!
The progress so far:
Can you tell where I swapped the gas bottle over to Argoshield?
Argoshield this side --------------------------------------------------------- CO2 this end (Started here)
Argon welds
Penetration:
This is on 0.8mm plate and 0.6mm wire
A lot of the later welds are on vertical plate too... I'm quite proud of it really
Sadly I ran out of gas (2 bottles!) before I could do any more butt welds. The 2 I did are a bit rubbish.
I think the gas it set too high as it didn't last long, new bottle later andI'll try some butt joints!
Rich
New guy here, just started to weld yesterday with a SIP MigMate 105 turbo borrowed from a friend.
I'm learning to weld as I made the mistake of putting a wire brush against a rust bubble on my Porsche 924 and it turns out a Previous owner ecided that body solder and filler would do for a wheel arch!
So I have cut the rotten plate away and have a gaping hole in my car!
The progress so far:
Can you tell where I swapped the gas bottle over to Argoshield?
Argoshield this side --------------------------------------------------------- CO2 this end (Started here)
Argon welds
Penetration:
This is on 0.8mm plate and 0.6mm wire
A lot of the later welds are on vertical plate too... I'm quite proud of it really
Sadly I ran out of gas (2 bottles!) before I could do any more butt welds. The 2 I did are a bit rubbish.
I think the gas it set too high as it didn't last long, new bottle later andI'll try some butt joints!
Rich
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