Hi!
I've been busy making a weld pad (or soemthing like that) basically a square of steel that I weld round in straight lines to practice. It's going well, the welds look nicely half sunk into the steel and even the slag peeled itself off a few times (though only for maybe the first 4cm of the weld) still - nice to know I'm doing it right.
By this point I had got a bit "adventorous" and thought I'd try to weld two peices of steel together, so I got tow peices of flat bar and placed one flat, and the other on its edge (both 5-7mm thick ish) and tacked it in place. worked a treat!
THEN I CAME TO WELD IT..... what a disaster!! the weld puddle looked like it was being sucked UNDER the edge of the top peice of steel, the puddle was tiny and bitty and made a generally crap looking weld.
It has held, and a few of my welds looked "ok", but the majority looked like someone had thrown big bread crumbs at the metal.
I wasn;t using weld clamps, does that make a difference?
I've been busy making a weld pad (or soemthing like that) basically a square of steel that I weld round in straight lines to practice. It's going well, the welds look nicely half sunk into the steel and even the slag peeled itself off a few times (though only for maybe the first 4cm of the weld) still - nice to know I'm doing it right.
By this point I had got a bit "adventorous" and thought I'd try to weld two peices of steel together, so I got tow peices of flat bar and placed one flat, and the other on its edge (both 5-7mm thick ish) and tacked it in place. worked a treat!
THEN I CAME TO WELD IT..... what a disaster!! the weld puddle looked like it was being sucked UNDER the edge of the top peice of steel, the puddle was tiny and bitty and made a generally crap looking weld.
It has held, and a few of my welds looked "ok", but the majority looked like someone had thrown big bread crumbs at the metal.
I wasn;t using weld clamps, does that make a difference?