Made a downpipe
 

Downpipe I just made with a crappy 10 years old welder. Ive only been welding for about 2 weeks still a noob :P

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cleaned off the welds with a wire wheel, no grinding.

comments/criticise welcome

Re: Made a downpipe
 

sexy bitch

Re: Made a downpipe
 

I think it looks great, good job :6

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need close-ups of welds.
i'm no expert, but i believe you want the "quarters" tighter
looks better than my flux-core

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Yeah I know what you mean by having them tighter...its just hard to get the right angle underneath the pipe.

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2 weeks my ass. good job anyways.

Re: Made a downpipe
 

looks like you laid down a bunch of tacks on the second picture.

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Ya stop trying to make a mig look like a tig, just run
a constant bead and it will be much stronger :y

Re: Made a downpipe
 

If your using a MIG welder it should probably look like this:

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A constant bead, not on and off. IF that's what you were doing. That was done with my Hobart 180.

Re: Made a downpipe
 

by looking at his welds, he is pulsing the trigger. clicking it on and off with every half moon