New to welding, looking for advice, here are some samples Options

[terrymason]

So I spent about 3 hours today with my welder, the first time I've seriously tried welding, and have made progress, but I'm still trying to get it right. I was hoping that you guys could look at some samples of my work, and give me some pointers.

My welder only has a Low and High heat selector, and adjustable wire control. I bought a "how to weld" tape off ebay, and that did give me some help.

I'm trying to weld 20 gauge to another larger peice of 20 gauge, and I just tear up the smaller peice without really penetrating the larger one.

my welder:
(IMG:http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/7029/picture0014ul.th.jpg)

front
(IMG:http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1342/picture0039wt.th.jpg)

and back
(IMG:http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9079/picture0066rh.th.jpg)

What do you guys think I'm doing wrong? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

[nbscooters]

The piece on the left doesn't have as good as penatration to the piece on the right. When you can heavily see what you welded on the other side of the piece of metal, then that means it has fused together good enough, but in some cases too much heat can cause you to burn a hole through your metal, which is not good. Keep in mind, if thats galvanized metal, its tought to weld. My 2 cents


ps. find some one who knows how to weld and have them show you a few tricks.