tombardier
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Hi folks.
Been practicing my vertical ups and I think something is finally clicking. I'm starting to get the feel for it now. If you look at my photos, you're quite entitled to think otherwise, but I've found real frustration in having the pool just roll back on me, or with me having the arc length so short that I've gouged holes through the admittedly thin metal I've been welding. These are the first ones I've ever done that didn't do that!
I'm using an r-tech 140m inverter @ just over 50 amps with 2mm e6013 rods DCEP on 3mm steel. This is just using the technique of holding the corners and letting the pool build up then bringing the pool over to the other corner and holding that for a bit etc.
I find I'm liking the 2mm rods, as things just seem to happen so quickly with the bigger rods. Whilst I do like when dragging stringers on horizontal fillets and things, I've been finding it hard using them with the thin 3mm sheet for the verticals.
Anyway, make what you will of my photos. I know people like welding porn, good or bad! These were the last ones I was doing before I had to shut up my garage for the night. I did adjust the images to be vertical, but the preview seems to show them as horizontal. The welds themselves are also very small, as my 2mm rods are quite short, and I was burning about half a rod for each of those short runs, and then wanting to change position.
I wish I could carry on practising tonight, but my neighbour leaves for work at 4am, and I don't want to keep him up half of the night
I'll carry on tomorrow, and try and get some good runs.
Been practicing my vertical ups and I think something is finally clicking. I'm starting to get the feel for it now. If you look at my photos, you're quite entitled to think otherwise, but I've found real frustration in having the pool just roll back on me, or with me having the arc length so short that I've gouged holes through the admittedly thin metal I've been welding. These are the first ones I've ever done that didn't do that!
I'm using an r-tech 140m inverter @ just over 50 amps with 2mm e6013 rods DCEP on 3mm steel. This is just using the technique of holding the corners and letting the pool build up then bringing the pool over to the other corner and holding that for a bit etc.
I find I'm liking the 2mm rods, as things just seem to happen so quickly with the bigger rods. Whilst I do like when dragging stringers on horizontal fillets and things, I've been finding it hard using them with the thin 3mm sheet for the verticals.
Anyway, make what you will of my photos. I know people like welding porn, good or bad! These were the last ones I was doing before I had to shut up my garage for the night. I did adjust the images to be vertical, but the preview seems to show them as horizontal. The welds themselves are also very small, as my 2mm rods are quite short, and I was burning about half a rod for each of those short runs, and then wanting to change position.
I wish I could carry on practising tonight, but my neighbour leaves for work at 4am, and I don't want to keep him up half of the night
I'll carry on tomorrow, and try and get some good runs.
