turboDXcoupe

man i just bought one yesterday and ...dude its harder than i though i need to practice before i do anything major with it...all my welds came out really messy

88dx

Mig Welding sould be fairly eazy. a couple hours with good power and wire settings on the welder you should be fine. post pics of the messy welds
steve

luderone

lol, yea it takes some time, did you get one with a heat controll? and to controll wire speed. that makes it easy. because some times your to hot and your burn threw. and if your cold it will spit and splatter. and if you welding galvenized (spell?) you need to wire brush that ---- off. or it will not weld, you see white ---- all over. just trying to help.

turboDXcoupe

thanks for the advice guys yeah it was just spatering everywhere

racerex

Ok, it's time to post this up:
http://www.machinist.org/army_welding/
I'm no professional welder, but there is some useful information there.
Somewhere on H-T there is like a 30 page welding thread, most of it's probably useless though.