For a first go you are not doing anything wrong at all, you have some nice runs there and much better than a lot of first timers, some are a bit high, some have needed more amps and some have went a touch walkabout.....but still good for first attempts.
Keeping your hand steady in a couple of spots would have helped, that improves with practice.
If you have the steel have another go with perhaps 5 runs, varying the settings a little bit each time then if you want some more opinions number them with chalk and take a good close up photo.
Cheers mate for that I tell you somert a good welder makes it look really easy to weld things up its deffo a lot harder haha keeping it in str8 lines are hard when u carnt see too well. Do you know any good mask to get ? And I will try that mate and put up a pic some one told me It looked too fast and to wait for a puddle to reach top of metal then start moving keeping it consistant it that rite ?
I bought a cheap auto mask from ebay 4 years ago, they are still only around £25 ish, mine is still working well and for the hobby welder they do the task great.
Obviously if you were welding for a living and wearing a mask for hours a day then something more expensive would be better.
If you cant see it clearly you cant ever weld it good. Its one of the few things I now wear glasses for, get an eye test, clean you lens and change the cover if its messed up.
I can put in pretty good welds without my glasses still but for positional stick work and TIG I put them on and use some good lens wipes
I know everyone does seem to like to start on joints but don't, instead work on a pad of beads all the welds ending up touching and as straight as you can. With MIG certainly learn to sight your name neatly as you might normally do it. Then when you switch to joints all the skills are in place quicker and you just need work on proper penetration / fusion
Could we see a pic of the other side? Without that we can't see how well the welds have penetrated the parent metal. Otherwise they appear very good for a first attempt.
I haven't got it with me I only do Monday and Tuesday's welding course I can do it and again then and take clear pics of it for you I'm after buying a welder soon so I can do it at home to get better faster but there's that many to choose from I don't wana spend it on some crap machine iv got about £1300 at a push
I can push to £1300 just about iv been looking at a few on Internet and have no idea yet as only been welding for a few week now I just thought if I spend a bit on one then it will weld good and not brake just finding it hard because there's that many I want one with high duty cycle
Don't get the idea spending a lot of money means it will 'weld good', most machines bar a couple of the cheaper hobby one's are more than capable of producing first class welds in the right hand's, even some of the hobby range of machines.
You will get advice on what machine is suitable here but members need to know the following:
What do you intend to weld.
What's the max thickness and how often.
Is portability important.
Do you want gas and gasless or happy to be just gas.
What power supply have you got.
Can you easily upgrade the power supply if required.
As much info as possible and I am sure helpful advice will follow.
Cheer mate thanks well i want to be able to weld cars up chassis body work also rollcages bumpers rock tree sliders bash plates make things for 4x4s , benches alsorts really. my mates an electrition said he will sort all that side of it out for me somthing moveable would be good and I would like gas / gas-less also a mig /tig or should I buy seperate machines I will be using it regularly aswell and thickness It would be good to know it can weld thick metal if I need to cheers again look forward to getting some advice
The most often recommended mig on here for those with a big budget is the Portamig - seems to get rave reviews from everyone who has one. It should be up to doing everything you want. You could always start with a cheaper one from eBay though, and trade up later.
Have a look at the Weldequip site, they have a decent selection. They are very helpful if you email them with questions.
If I was buying a new welder and had £1300 I would be looking for a decent multi function machine. MIG, TIG, MMA then you can learn to TIG at your leisure as well as the stick welder. I am sure you could find a great machine and have money left for the gas and consumables.
I wish I had bought a multi function machine.