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Looks good. 70S6 wire I suppose so I would clean the metal good, and turn it up. Let it eat man. Might see less splatter. I weld outside so I run 20 on the gas. It helps too. Lol
Zim

 

Is that a casting and did you heat it first?? Beautiful.
Zim

 

I'll give .030 a try see how much of a difference it makes. I plan on getting some gas sometime in the next couple of days. See if it helps.

Yeah i definitely noticed much better appearance when i clean the material really well. Thanks for the tips!

 

@Strictlytoyz Your 140 will work best with .030 solid wire too.

 

Myself I would use nothing but .023 hard wire unless your welding production and piece rate.

Pretty much the size I use for most of the welding I do.

In my case simple to go to .045 or larger if I need to .

 

I switched to my spool of .035 this weekend since I was welding some thicker stuff that would make me feel comfortable welding with thicker wire. Supposedly according to my chart I am supposed to run the welder maxed for 3/16". It undercut the shit out of 3/8" lol, but of course it could have been me. Also blew through my 1/8" round tube once or twice, but it was nice getting a thicker bead that I would have needed multiple passes on my .023. Really this was just for me to learn how to change spools, and resetting up the drive tension (I was having large random spatter from inconsistent feeding when I swapped) and all that. Was good learning experience since I bought this welder with a spool on it already.

I def see what @Wyoming09 means about not needing much more than .023 for most stuff now lol.

Anyway, enough rambling, here are my welds. Welding under the bed sucks. I found that for ideal position stuff I like the lower case e approach, but the c's are much easier in out of position stuff, for me anyway.

Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr

Most of my vert stuff that's not a fillet I go down instead of up. My ups on anything else never look good. I'll be switching back to my .023 after this project is over lol.

 

Have you tried 030 before? It’s my favorite wire, kinda a jack of all trades imo. I comfortably weld 1/4” with it down to sheet metal, in a pinch. Welds look good btw. My out of position go-to is a C as well, just Slowly jump back and forth between the two pieces best I can.

 

I haven't because I felt the .023 lets me do super thin sheet metal very easily, so I figured getting the spool of .035 would be the opposite if I needed to do anything thicker. Well that's a lie, I have welded with other peoples welders with .030 and I do agree it is good for all around truck stuff, but I do wonder if I can do the super thin 20-22g stuff I have done with .030 as easily as I do now. Would be nice to not have to swap spools though.

 

20-22 ga is tough depending on how adjustable your weld settings are. The Hobart "1-7" doesn't quite do it. I swap from .030 to .023 if I'm doing less than 1/8" (11 GA).

 

This. I don’t run anything besides .023 hard wire in the smaller machines.

 

I guess it'd all depends on the frequency at which you weld different thicknesses. If you're regularly doing sheet metal then 023 definitely. I can comfortably weld down to 20 gauge with 030 but I'll be honest, I haven't tried 023 on it before. I've just never bothered switching spools so for all I know I could be missing out.

 

Thanks! No pre heating and that is stainless 316L.

 

Looks solid man, hoping to get good enough to trust myself welding onto the truck. Definitely a long ways away.

 

Photo dump of some recent stuff plus the rear bumper added onto the flatbed and tied into the frame on the last truck, simple but clean in my opinion

 

It all depends what your doing and how much .

A few brackets with 1/2" flat stock no problem with .023 hard wire for me.

Then a 5 yard loader bucket rebuild I would swap feeders real quick.

Then the older I get the lazier I get

When you have all the processes and have all the wires sizes I could every need at hand I
would venture 90% of what I do is .023 hard wire .

 

This has to be the worst part

 

I would do them all day long!

Section Aluminum plates into the floor of a garbage trailer not only does it cook out of the floor no matter the prep method getting things welded without inclusions is interesting

 

I like the way you did that. You could then pass the recovery point through the face, weld it there, and weld it all along that mounting plate.

edit: I’d cap all the ends that you can so you don’t have to worry about corrosion in the tube. If you weren’t already planning. It looks like you know what you’re doing though so I’ll shut up

 

I actually did this with the recovery points in mind. And it’s easier for me to trust my welds with more surface contact.

I need to find a source for the recovery points though. Haven’t found any that are long enough.

I have you fooled if you think I know what I’m doing, lol