Never mind i Bought one a lil bit ago, works great


Modified by sohcvtec66 at 2:22 PM 1/31/2005

 

guess not

 

i;m probably not doing it 100% right, but i find all you really need to do is to get the right wire speed and heat, which will pretty much sound like frying bacon when you've got it. then just lay your bead straight down, you don't need to do any of that circular **** with the gun, just pull or push the gun straight at a constant speed to lay your bead. keep in mind, this is how I do it, and i have had ZERO training on this stuff, I just bought a flux core wirefed welder and kept playing with it till the beads looked nice.

so you might wanna wait till someone else chimes in.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Eddiebx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i;m probably not doing it 100% right, but i find all you really need to do is to get the right wire speed and heat, which will pretty much sound like frying bacon when you've got it. then just lay your bead straight down, you don't need to do any of that circular **** with the gun, just pull or push the gun straight at a constant speed to lay your bead. keep in mind, this is how I do it, and i have had ZERO training on this stuff, I just bought a flux core wirefed welder and kept playing with it till the beads looked nice.

so you might wanna wait till someone else chimes in. </TD></TR></TABLE>
hey i appreciate your info what kinda welder did you buy?

 

some really cheap *** one from walmart, its blue, i forget the brand, but hey it gets the job done, heh

 

for my HF welder on exhaust pipe i found the 4-5 wire speed and HIGH heat setting worked best for me.

try this motion... start bead for a quick sec, then using short baby strokes (1/4"?), foward, foward, back, foward, foward, back, foward, foward, back , foward, foward, back.

or sometimes i do a Z --------"zZzzzzzzzzzzz" this way-----&gt;

i'm not an expert at welding but also keep in mind that angle helps too.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by evosol &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">for my HF welder on exhaust pipe i found the 4-5 wire speed and HIGH heat setting worked best for me.

try this motion... start bead for a quick sec, then using short baby strokes (1/4"?), foward, foward, back, foward, foward, back, foward, foward, back , foward, foward, back.

or sometimes i do a Z --------"zZzzzzzzzzzzz" this way-----&gt;

i'm not an expert at welding but also keep in mind that angle helps too.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah THANKS FOR THE HELP

 

don't forget to scrape the lovely crap off the pipes before rewelding.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by evosol &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">don't forget to scrape the lovely crap off the pipes before rewelding. </TD></TR></TABLE>

ah yes, i keep my powerdrill with the wire brush attachment by my side for that

 

I'm curious to see the best weld one can muster out of one of these machines.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CRXDrew &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'm curious to see the best weld one can muster out of one of these machines.</TD></TR></TABLE>
We will find out tomarrow i guess, ill post up some pics of my welds

is this any good?

# Input: 115 volt, 20 amps, single phase
# Welding current (2 settings) 63 to 68 amps (low), 79 to 90 amps (high)
# Duty cycle: 10% @ 80 amps, 18% @ 60 amps
# Wire capacity: 0.035'' or 0.030'' ???

 

I weld to HF and bought this welder http://www.harborfreight.com/c...44567 and for being a beginner, with an artistic person , this welder is great , im sure the miller and linc are better, but im real happy with this welder, works great runs fine, just learn the wire feed setting, and heat you will do just fine, i just did my test pipe, and welder a shitty muffler on my back up car 87 corolla,


SO for all the beginners go buy one best $100 ive spent in awhile