Official Tennessee Thread

Thanks guys! And I got gas, it's 1/4 inch metal. Settings were on 3/50? I think. And for "T"welds, I was using the "U" technique but I watched a video and the guy said to hold it at the top a second longer than the bottom cause it would run down, I did that and it worked out fairly well for 2 days haha. And for the solid welds, I was using the lower case "e" motion. I slowed down a LOT and turned the feed down so I think that also helped. We don't know what size wire we're using so we're gonna get some new wire haha. What is making it splatter? And newb question, why is the metal changing colors? Something I'm doing wrong? We looked at the chart the machine has to see what it needed to be set on for 3/16 and 1/4 metal and it says it won't do it.....my grandfather said if we get to doing this a lot we'd get a bigger one but it seems to have done 3/16 and 1/4" pretty well?

 

Color is coming from the heat, should be bluish... Do you mean like the beads of metal spatter or when you start welding the gun spatters?

 

Also you should check out an app for phones call esab weld settings

 

Ok, just hadn't seen it on other welds, could have just been ground off. It is bluish and it's the beads and some very small sticks of metal spatter.

Thanks! Just downloaded it!

 

Also, Cory, me and 2 of my buddies are heading up to Tech tomorrow if you wanna meet up.

 

Haha, I probably actually will. I have my first fish mounted in my parents house from when I was 5 from lake barkley.

How is the wheeling there, how extreme do you guys run?

 

Hahahahaha have u seen the trucks in this thread!? Not much extreme goin on! Lol

 

Haha. Well, that's fine with me. My truck is still too new for me to want to do too much with it.

 

yeah nothing to extreme.

 

X2!!!! Don't wanna screw it up but I think I'm gonna make some bumpers and sliders for my graduation present

 

Then again I say that, but I blew out my last set of coilovers, ruined my stock skid plate, and I'm pretty well pinstriped. But yeah, I was just checking... I knew I wasn't up for like the trips the guys from NC take to Windrock.

 

Damn dude u r a newb! Haha u cant grind off the discolor, its from the metal getting hot. Its not just on the surface. And with ur spatter problem sounds like either a ground problem or ur not matching up ur settings well. Try turning the volts to 4 with the same wire speed, if it still isnt prrfect then turn ur wire speed down just a lil bit

 

Haha yeah and u kinda put a sc on ur 4 banger I think ur in pretty deep at this point! Lol and u would have to come with us to Superlift Offroad Park to do some of the things they do at Windrock

 

yeah, i got a few strips. and yeah no windrock till lift and full armer. could go to royal blue wma where me and cory(mountainman) went not this past weekend up the weekend before.

 

Hahaha I've never seen it done up close and I've only welded twice. It's grounded well and do you mean volts to 40 and leave wire feed at 3?

 

weston those welds are pretty good.

 

Im sorry I said that all ass backwards. Turn ur wire speed up to 4 with the same voltage and if ur still having a problem with spatter turn ur voltage down slightly and see if that helps. Also when u start feeling pretty good about ur welds try speeding up a lil bit, it should help make it more fluent

 

Thanks Zach! I'll be at tech tomorrow, you oughtta come tour with us.

Haha you're fine, and the highest speed is 4, the highest voltage is 100. And slow down, now speed up....what do you want me to do??? Haha

 

Yeah I know. So turn it to 4! And u should never come close to that 100v unless u want ur welder to melt! Lol and if u would pay attention, I said go slow to learn and when u feel better about ur welds then speed up to improve the fluency of them.

 

Hahahaha alright, so what's the reason for turning the wire feed to 4? And I won't ever turn it up to 100! Haha I'll try and kick up the speed a little today.