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General Discussion Area / Re: Home DIY Welder advice please
« on: 02 February 2015, 21:45:38 »I have done alot of welding on cars and with my job too...You forgot the bit about your fire watcher not buggering off while you set his car on fire Dazzle.
Probably the best advise would be to make what your welding as clean as possible. With that I mean clean from rust ( so go back to bare steel ) ... paint, grease etc....
Another thing I still do now is listen to the sound the welder makes when you pull the trigger. Your listening for a nice crisp crackling sound... Get some scrap steel (I would say the thinker the better to start with) holding your torch over the steel, pull the trigger whilst the other hand alters the wire speed up and down... if the wire speed is too high it will sound like its spitting, much too high you may even feel the torch moving as the wire is almost stabbing the steel if that makes sense.... turn the thing up onto full then down too minimum. ..see for yourself
Getting yourself comfortable, able to see where your supossed to be welding... ( sounds silly, yet I am trying to teach an apprentice at work how to weld. I seem to be telling him that his wrist actually moves, and that he can move his head into a different position to enable him to see the two pieces of steel he is trying to weld...
