That weld looks good for a first try!!
Yeah, I agree. Especially considering Dad has the shade and sensitivity jacked up on the auto-darkening mask AND the ground clamp wasn't directly connected to the piece he was welding on lol I put everything up and set the feed rate and amp settings down to minimum so he could adjust it to where we had been at to see if he had been paying attention and so he felt more like he was a big shot welder lol... He got the settings pretty close but the ground clamp was only touching the welding table surface. He clamped it and everything. Not bad at all for a 9 yrs old's first try though
Heck, my first experience, not much older than my son is now, all I can remember is a wet floor, wet horse trailer, and grabbing my first cold sweating beer off the fender and my godfather laughing and saying "That's why I told you not to set your beer there." I'll tell you this, those old Lincoln 220v stick welders put out some serious juice. I have no idea how my weld looked but to this day I flinch every time I go to pick up a beer lol
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Yeah....that's pretty much what happens in my head....only it's :I'M WELDING! !!! I'M ACTUALLY WELDING! !. ....and occasionally onr of my welds comes out that good!
Lol yeah, me too! I just blame it on not having a bottle for shielding gas and bad flux wire