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Range Rover Blues:
Top tip, if it looks like a peice of bird s*** it is. You need to balance the wire fed with the melt rate, if it pops and spits then possibly not enough wire feed, if you feel it juddering and stabbing then too much.
If you keep burning holes through then too much current, same if the weld look undercut.
I'm probably not explaining this very well but once you know how it should feel it's easy to do (come on guys back me up here :wink: ) and should crackly like frying bacon, apparently.
BTW, I found a nice little booklet in my local Halfrauds.
Mudlark:
--- Quote from: "Range Rover Blues" ---Top tip, if it looks like a peice of bird s*** it is. You need to balance the wire fed with the melt rate, if it pops and spits then possibly not enough wire feed, if you feel it juddering and stabbing then too much.
If you keep burning holes through then too much current, same if the weld look undercut.
I'm probably not explaining this very well but once you know how it should feel it's easy to do (come on guys back me up here :wink: ) and should crackly like frying bacon, apparently.
BTW, I found a nice little booklet in my local Halfrauds.
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Without pictures I'd say that was perfect :lol:
I'd just add do plenty of practising before you try it out on something important
And remember welding upside down under the car where you can't get your helmet in properly and all the cable and exhaust system is in the way, not to mention jutting out bits of the chassis, is really soul destroying :roll: :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:
P.R.Howler:
Hope its not gasless, fluxcore wire is a waste of time money and energy, make sure area to be welded is clean as poss, check underneath for wires/fuel lines etc and the dreaded underseal is fun to weld above........practice on clean bits of scrap, and yeah, it should sound like sizzling bacon when running right.........but you cant always get it right, I set my mig up so I can adjust the wire feed with my left hand while welding up.......but I have been mig welding for 20+years
cardiff_gareth:
Well I gav it my best shot and not blowing my own trumpet, did a pretty good job, the bacon was sizzling and so were the eggs :lol:
Richard from the DOC has been helping me with the floor and as I've never welded he gave me a master class 8)
After 10 mins I was welding the floor pan in with Rich watching over me, my main problem that Richard had to keep stopping me from doing was going too fast as I got carried away but it turned out well, some areas of the floor were very thin and I made some nice holes (enter seam sealer!) but over all it was good. We practiced on some sheet metal first, getting the speed right, getting over the nerves and playing with the settings, in the end we went for low setting, high current or high setting low current depending on the area being welded. All I need to do now is paint the floor up and then pictures will be in Discovery forum :P
Dead chuffed now - I can sort of weld now :lol:
Defender:
Check out your local colleges as they sometimes do a welding course at "Night School"
They will often cover Manual Metal Arc Welding (stick welding), MIG Welding, TIG Welding, Gas Welding & Gas Cutting.
Whilst I taught myself MIG Welding, I managed to get one of my employers to send me on one of these courses & it improved my MIG skills & I also had the benefit of learning some new skills. :)
15 years later, I am now having to call on my training & I am trying to remember how to use an Oxy/Acetalene kit to cut steel. :shock:
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