my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

ok i've been tring to weld and its just not working, i got a little wire feed for $400 from home depot. just not getting it. i was reading on here about someone who has welds that look like mine. and it said to fix them turn the speed down to low and turn the heat all the way up. didnt work, it just pops. like constant pop pop pop pop, so please. tell me what the ---- i'm doing wrong, look like ------- bird ----. now do you guys go just like in a strait line or in little circles, what heat levels and all that ----, mainly just want to do my own mani. how the ---- do i controll this thing .

Re: my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

a flux core mig isnt what id be making a mani with.

you need to play with the heat and wire feed speed.

eventually youll get it. ---- doesnt happen overnight

Re: my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

Practice,practice and more practice.

Re: my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

Are you even sure your welder came with flux core wire? Maybe its regular wire and you need sheilding gas?

Re: my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

Ya, if you can post pics do it.

What Welder? What Wire are you Using. If it is flux core, use only the good ----. Lincoln Brand is what I have had the best results with.

Flux Core can be very finiky!! It took me a long time to get it right. There is a real fine line between too much wire and not enough. Also the cleaner the surface te better. Great welds can be produced with flux core if that's all you got. I haven't done it for a long time, so about a motn hago I popped a spool in and I could get it going well for at least 30 min of playing around

Re: my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

it would also help to know what type of metal you are welding on

Re: my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

word so i guess its just a trial and erra type of deal..... i'll just keep it up and hopfully get the hang of it....

its this one

http://store.weldingdepot.com/cgi/we...ml?id=cJJ9vfJM


and i'm wanting to weld mild steel

Re: my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

its becouse you dont have a badass welding helmet 8)

Re: my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

That's not bad price for a 220volt unit. How is the make, It isn't a cheap Habour frieght style is it. I've been looking for a fairly portable 220v.

Re: my welding sucks please help !!!!!
 

That was me ! I've been practicing for about a year now on and off the only thing I can say is the fluxcore will look like ---- until you grind it down a slag hammer is a good tool to have too ! I eventually got mine done though I do this when I'm welding ((((((((((((( I just wait for a puddle and then push it around in that shape full circles work too. I just got alot of crazy ---- form the junk yard and freinds projects and learned that way. Practice by making a caddie for it so you don't have to haul it around every where thats on of the things I did. No matter what we do the welds will never look as good as some of these TIG machines but they'll work. Let me know if you want any pics or you can just go to my sentra project in this forum. Good luck. DL