hi from down south

[ngrundy]

Hi All,

Seen i've been reading here for a couple of months I figure I should introduce myself and thank everyone for the interesting and useful information that is posted here.

My better half asked for some garden beds to be made, I decided it would be an opportunity to give welding a bash on more than a few play around sheets i had done at friends places.

I've actually managed to aquire two units during the process....

I did all the right things first up and got a good brand name MMA welder, BOC Smootharc 130. Then did all the wrong things with the MIG and that's a cheep Chinese thing off ebay

All things said though the MIG ain't a bad little unit, had a friend of mine give me the basics on setting up and running MIG and after a couple of hours I think i was turning out mig welds better than 20 hours of using the stick.

Couple of pic's attached of some of the work i've done so far.

In the photos the RHS is 50x50x1.6mm, the flat bar is 20x3mm

 

[zardoz]

You are removing the paint and rust from those tubes beore you weld them arent you ? The whire deposits either side of the top 2 pictures look like you are not, or at the very least not enough. you must have 2 centimetre/1 inch to weld into otherwise the weld pool will contaminate.

Apart from that id say thats pretty good going, for a first go with a MIG!

Others can hopefully offer a more constructive critique of your welding.

 

[ngrundy]

On the top two i admit i didn't clean the paint off, was just trying out a new brand of stick on the mma.

As for the rest, I probably could have been more generous with the cleaning, the rust you see reformed, the frames had the misfortune of getting hit by a 6 hour downpour one day :/

 

[ESTAlfisti]

Hello and Welcome to MIG Welding Forum!

Reijo