When you get that line in the weld its a good indication that you need less heat or more filler. The fish eye at the end, regardless of other reasons is also an indication that you need more fill ans especially at the end. It appears your filler feed isnt keeping up with your heat, if you just moved...

Sometimes you may want to degrease ans hose out floor, so designing a fall so water drain out of shed etc. You find out why they are called concreaturez when you go to hose and make lakes. Also I have found that if a slight fall is in the plan it tends to make them pay more attention to what they le...

Those pics look pretty good. Your starts and finish need just a bit more time. The arc starts then you get a puddle with both sides, then you move at comfortable pace. When you finish double dab filler swirl and let button go or if using lift arc double dab filler, swirl, drag out of pool and snap o...

Mate you are so close its not funny. You need to find a way to reduce heat slightly or increase filler. This is aparrent more in the fisheye at the end. 1/16 filler is theoretically the right filler. But if you change only one thing first try going 3/32 on the filler. It may work.......it always doe...

Good to hear mate. And yes Zinc sux, youd think for metal often found with copper and gold it may behave itself better but alas, no class

Hi mate, I’d take the job, we all start somewhere. Reviews are good but opinions are like backsides everyone’s got one and sometimes it produces similar stuff. You must work safely at all times, pay particular attention to stupid requests for you to work Unsafely at heights and if are required to wo...

Hi Jeff. With the technique of dabbing the best advice I could give is similar to what CJ already has made. It is very possible that you are a bit tense and overthinking details. As you melt stuff it all falls in to place eventually and getting it wrong is the best way to get it going better. The ex...

So I am a little out of practise with ally and I bought some 4043 the other day, mate at the tool store gave me "that look" when I said my new welder has a foot control coming......eventually. She'll be right I said, I completely forgot what bugger ally is with out amp control :lol: :lol: ...

As I have not really attempted welding sprinģs, mainly cause I have not needed to. But that weld procedure I mentioned should work as good as any. Q and T plate may work better but as you said its not economical there....or anywhere these days. I would do that with 7016 stick or dualshield 81ni wire...

I know Ive said this before in other spots and I swear I'm not on comission from sibronze suppliers :lol: But tig brazing is a good remedy for broken spot welds because it takes less heat so you mininmise damage to SS and still get same strength of an average spotweld. It is easier for a beginner to...

If its for a test than I usually jam two 30degree sharp( no landing ) together and go up the centre with a thick 2.5mm cut of wheel and about 120amps give or take on 3.2mm sticks, these are ballpark. It gives you about 2mm landing and just under 3mm gap if you go gently. The amps up or down to suit....

It sounds like your gap closed up halfway through. Maybe put tacks in the middle to keep gap apart as it does close in, sometimes only a wee bit but still enough to change stuff.

Thank you all for your valuable suggestions and comments , i must agree that contamination of the basic metal is the worst thing of all . I conclude that repairs like this should be done once and very well. The welder that weld it in the first place did not weld correctly so it end it up an almost ...

If this is an art project and not mechanical than I would be inclined to glow it red with a torch in the intended weld area let cool than pre heat to 100 degree C and weld in spray arc, or as close as you can get with your machine. Tack each end of the intended weld, one side a dash bigger tack and ...

No mate, hard facing wire is a metal deposit that is designed to be durable work hardened and chip off as is wears in most applications. It has no ductility at all in a practical sense. An 81ni flux core may work as it has a slight amount of nickel more than a 71 flux and a dash more silicon, on pap...

Hi Dustin. Just a quick note I haven’t tried the PrimeWeld welders, but I have gone through the manual for the 225 AC/DC. That is an excellent manual, I shared it with a friend who I was explaining the concepts of polarity and pulse settings to and they just clicked with it. It also covered included...

Looks good, but Consider bigger wheels. The welding trolley I made has got a 300mm rear wheel, so that gives 150mm clearance and 150mm swivel at front. Although this is a tool cart it wouldnt be bad to go about the same. If your nonswivel wheel is on outside with axle at the bottom of the leg than y...

On the cleaning, I am a big 'keep it clean to tig' kinda guy, but when dealing with threads put lanolin/wd40 on lightly and use heat (it may catch alight a bit, just you know) to clean, wipe excess lanolin etc. Be cause if its clean your filler may stick to thread, have done this its not fun. And if...

Myself, Having a bit of time and alot of love for bicycles, I agree completely with Tweake. If you repair that again its going break and its probably going to hurt someone. They are welded and treated and dont take well to repairs. You may get away with it but it wont be right. Sorry to be a bad new...

Hi mate. If you are chasing weldmonger than you may not get much results here, they dont have much to do with this. I find the easiest way to get a hold of them is thier email address. info@weldmonger.com I have had delivery issues before and they usually very good, much better than most stores. Hop...

I can be confident that some of you guys know this already. I, for one didn't. I have been sharpening my tungstens the same way we got taught at trade school all those years ago. While searching for tungsten types I stumbled upon some info about grinding techniques, I read it but was very curious so...

Yeah it has been difficult but I imagine many others have it just as bad if not worse. New Zealand didnt get off lightly either from what I would imagine, tourism was hurt pretty bad across the board. Just gotta play the ball from where it is. Any how, yeah it is one of those trades/hobbies where yo...

Yeah we getting pummelled by rain over here. Work said we cant weld in the rain beacause of stray arcs.
Stray Arks, how much bloody rain are they expecting

Over the ditch in Aust mate.
I got 11s somewhere probably got some in the shed some where.

I might grab some 11s and have a go. 6010s are just too bothersome to find here. Honestly it has never occurred to me to stack with sticks as it is considered a faulty weld, every where I have been anyway. But it does sound like a bit of fun.