If anyone has anytips on how a good, flux cored mig weld (no gas) should look like help me
, I have been messing with the wirefeed and i noticed that It was on max and everytime id weld the feed would stop but the feed tensioner was wayyyyy too loose, I weld on a 45 degee angle.
I tried it on min amps and max amps still no luck, I have been practicing with small pieces on conduit, 1 3/4 of an inch whic is gunna be a new Dumptube for my external gate....

 

First off its just called flux cord welding. Mig stands Metal Inert Gas.

Anyways, try to post some pictures. Hard to tell whats wrong with out pictures.

 

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If you're going to correct, do it correctly. It's called Flux Cored welding.

 

FLUX CORED ARC WELDING fwac: but anyways i need some decent piping, I think im guna go to a exhaust shops dumpster and get a few scrap pipes and practice off them than ill get u some pics but i cant get a stteady bead, its turns out like little bb gun sized beads and smaller in a unsteady row, no matter the angle/my travel speed it still looks like trash, I have been practicing on a few pieces of zinc coated steel ( used as electrical boxes where all electrical connections are to a lightswtich behind a switch plate) idk if these are heat treated of if the zinc effects welds but on 90 amps its still very hard to penetrate the steel??

 

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If you're going to correct, do it correctly. It's called Flux Cored welding. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Was half asleep when I typed that , I know its flux core

 

flux cores are just like that. they aint no tig thats for damn sure.

i have a craftsman flux core and i turn the amp and wirespeed all the way up and can get a tiny bit of penetration but cant get it to really look good because the wire speed isnt fast enough.

 

Actually you can get good pentration with a flux core welder.

 

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yea i know but im just talking about my craftsman welder...

 

what have u used it to weld, Cause i ned to make a DP and maybe for fun a roll cage.. or atleast something a little more fun than a DP, im not sure the wire speed is an issue, cause the faster the speed it jsut ***** up on the surface of the metal i can get it to get red hot than the weld seems to hold better, if I were to go over it than take it to a grinding bench than go at it again to make shure there arnt any holes would this work and than finally clean it up on the grinder again?

 

If you turn up the speed and you see it balling up, you need to turn up the heat and slow down that wire speed a little.

Practice, Practice, Practice

 

i got it down, Thanks! professionally made a dump tube had to do a little grinding to make it look cleaner but it worked thanks again o and u were right i needed to adjust some of the settings i can lay down a even bead for just about as long as i need it