Sdannenberg3
Semi-Effective Member
ok, so i got this welder from harbor freight today. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=94056
I was practicing on some scrap metal first for some practice and I cant seem to get a good bead. I managed to get an alright weld on my second try, but my forth fifth and sixth ect. tries have been failed attempts. Could someone lay down the basics? Like as far as what speed the wire should be coming out and when I should use the high of low setting.
One problem i notice is that as im going along, instead of it making a constant weld, it will like shut off and on and the arc will stop as im moving along, but i never let go of the trigger, so i dont know why the arc would be stopping like that. So when it stops like that it makes for a bad, broken up bead. Any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong? Do I just have a really ****ty welder and should take it back and get a different one?
I was practicing on some scrap metal first for some practice and I cant seem to get a good bead. I managed to get an alright weld on my second try, but my forth fifth and sixth ect. tries have been failed attempts. Could someone lay down the basics? Like as far as what speed the wire should be coming out and when I should use the high of low setting.
One problem i notice is that as im going along, instead of it making a constant weld, it will like shut off and on and the arc will stop as im moving along, but i never let go of the trigger, so i dont know why the arc would be stopping like that. So when it stops like that it makes for a bad, broken up bead. Any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong? Do I just have a really ****ty welder and should take it back and get a different one?