Toysrme

Very nice man! Must be awesome to have a brother like that!



Stacking dimes is good for TIG, but can't that be a no-no in some cases running wire? I coulda swore I got told that like my second or so stringer bead I did. Eh. Maybe not.

Good parts tho!

FooK

The RK kit in my opinion isn't as good, no crossmember, and not a y-link design.

This one is more comparable to the Clayton's longarm kit

I am going to assume that by stacking dimes you're referring to doing a series of little overlapping tack welds.

Thats not what you're looking at. That weld is one long nonstop continuous bead, with an amazingly steady hand. In the almost 10 years I've known Jerry I have never seen a weld he laid break.

Scott-EP

i may be wrong but looking a tthe orange next to the weld i think he might need to turn up the gas a little. other than that it is a damn nice mig weld

FooK

I think its just fine...

Scott-EP

to me that looks like when you lift a tig torch away too fast after laying a bead, but again, i may be wrong

FooK

I think its fine...

michigan_soler

those look like some damn good mig welds to me!

Toysrme

It's not that I care. I'm just gearing my brain to look at this stuff for the foreseeable future so I'm trying to absorb it all. Why I asked. If that's a TIG weld then yeah, awesome. But I took what u said in the first post to mean he did it with wire. AFA that being a continuous bead yeah, but if that's MIG welding action. I'd much rather see an actual continuous bead without rippling (aka the stacked dimes). Just like a robot would weld it.



Hey **** question. Is your brother left handed?

FooK

The welding is done in a continuous bead where he works back and forth, most people I've seen weld mild steel with a mig do it in that fashion.

He's right handed but can weld left handed and right handed very proficiently.