Anything welding

Obviously you have to clean the metal before welding or grind of the paint, I mean clean the welds afterwards.

 

Because it looks horrible, all those bubbles look like boogers or peanuts lol



Clean MIG

 

That is a bad representation of mig and flux the flux is nasty i can do better then that welding with my feet!! And the mig picture is stacked tacks also not a good weld. Mostly due to not knowing how to weld thin wall sure it will hold but not ideal for mig welding unless its sheet metal.

 

Is this a good MIG weld?

 

That does look like a good Mig weld just remember it takes a good operator to preform a good weld so dont think you will be getting those results by just buying a mig.

 

Absolute best case scenario weld. Not out of position, completely straight, hands resting on table, etc.

 

Respirators are for girls.

 

LOL, being alive is for girls too?

 

If you're running at the max amperage of your machine flux will get you a bit more penetration due to the smaller cross sectional area of the wire (hollow wire). It's basically negligible though.

 

Fume extractor FTW!!!

 

Get high welding

 

Dicked around with vertical running .035 - I've had a difficult time getting it dialed in after running .030 for so long.



Built one of these guys -





And one of these guys - I've got one on the underside of my table, just found that I was draping my torch when I was working on the other side of my table.



Trying to source a double acting ram for the Rogue Bender; I feel like air over hydro is going to get old really quickly..

 

The only time I would wear a respirator is for galvanized welding. Otherwise my head isn't usually close enough to get in the smoke cloud. Gotta die from something anyway.

 

I had to discipline myself to wear one, now it's almost second nature. Plasma cutting and grinding in a small shop like mine makes a lot of nasty particulate..

 

I wear one for grinding. Blowing black snot out your nose is pretty gross.

 

Making some progress on the hotrod build. Sorta. The customer keeps dropping off more parts to weld on.
I had to fill 37 random holes in the firewall, since none of them will be needed. I made my roommate fill some of them though.



The frame is boxed and ready for the crossmember and Zee section.

 

It was a joke

Yep!

We just built a new table out of c channel and 1.5 tube in a sort of grid, downdraft table for grinding/finishing.

 

This was one of mine with a flux core .030 set up before I got my new set up.

 

I plan on welding MIG from the start so I"LL make some ugly welds but that will be some art welding for me for my firsts welder