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B16DoHcCrx033003 · 03-29-2004, 09:12 PM

u can buy refillable bottles on line, and you can get them from a local welding company usually, alsmo argon and CO2, they are used to blow oxygen out of the way so you dont get splatter

Splatter= when welding will shoot out lil bubbles of wire and make little dots of hard metal. easy to take off. if using a gas, set the pressure to 20PSI, so when u pull the trigger it will blast out the argon cor2 mix so it will not hit oxygen and flame and reduce splatter.... using MIg there should be a chart on the side of on the inside of the door on the machine... ther eare diferent settings, the can be labeled in numbers, and letters..etc.. there is a heat setting, higher for thicker metals, lower for thinner metals or metals that melt easier (tin) the guage of the metal will determine what heat setting to put it on.... then there is a wire feed (if you have wire feed) it determines how fast the wire comes out of the tip... that all depends how fast you go accross the metal or if your buring hotter it will melt the wire faster so u need to raise the wire speed...... before you start the weld the MAIN thing you plan on welding, get some metal thats the same guage and find the perfect settings... and sandblast or use a wire brush on the part that your welding, clean off all impurities, paint is very hard to weld through...... ok now to welding.... there are differect ways that you will be batter at pulling-is when u will the welder accross the metal... or pusher is when u push the welder accross the metal... i am a puller i find it easier... when welding you want to make a whole bunch or small Cs. when your welding or go in a circular motion... if you start burning through the metal that means that your to hot or going to slow..turn down the temp.... ifyou get clumps that means your also goign to slow or the wire feed it to high, when welding always keep quater to half of inch away from the metal you dont want the tip of the welder being right down on the metal... and you dont want it 50 feet away.. so quater to half an inch is perfect.... once in a while take off the tip which just screws off and clean it out with a screw driver... that can cause bad welds... and ALWAYS use a welding helmet, YOU DO NOT WANT WELDERS FLASH, it hurts like hell... youll wake up in the middle of the night and feel like a bucket of sand in your eyes and a fat man is standing on it grinding it in..... but i think thats about it...

03-29-2004, 09:12 PM	#9
B16DoHcCrx033003 4th Gear Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: New Castle, PA Age: 37 Posts: 621	u can buy refillable bottles on line, and you can get them from a local welding company usually, alsmo argon and CO2, they are used to blow oxygen out of the way so you dont get splatter Splatter= when welding will shoot out lil bubbles of wire and make little dots of hard metal. easy to take off. if using a gas, set the pressure to 20PSI, so when u pull the trigger it will blast out the argon cor2 mix so it will not hit oxygen and flame and reduce splatter.... using MIg there should be a chart on the side of on the inside of the door on the machine... ther eare diferent settings, the can be labeled in numbers, and letters..etc.. there is a heat setting, higher for thicker metals, lower for thinner metals or metals that melt easier (tin) the guage of the metal will determine what heat setting to put it on.... then there is a wire feed (if you have wire feed) it determines how fast the wire comes out of the tip... that all depends how fast you go accross the metal or if your buring hotter it will melt the wire faster so u need to raise the wire speed...... before you start the weld the MAIN thing you plan on welding, get some metal thats the same guage and find the perfect settings... and sandblast or use a wire brush on the part that your welding, clean off all impurities, paint is very hard to weld through...... ok now to welding.... there are differect ways that you will be batter at pulling-is when u will the welder accross the metal... or pusher is when u push the welder accross the metal... i am a puller i find it easier... when welding you want to make a whole bunch or small Cs. when your welding or go in a circular motion... if you start burning through the metal that means that your to hot or going to slow..turn down the temp.... ifyou get clumps that means your also goign to slow or the wire feed it to high, when welding always keep quater to half of inch away from the metal you dont want the tip of the welder being right down on the metal... and you dont want it 50 feet away.. so quater to half an inch is perfect.... once in a while take off the tip which just screws off and clean it out with a screw driver... that can cause bad welds... and ALWAYS use a welding helmet, YOU DO NOT WANT WELDERS FLASH, it hurts like hell... youll wake up in the middle of the night and feel like a bucket of sand in your eyes and a fat man is standing on it grinding it in..... but i think thats about it...