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I was using the 5356 because the machine came with a crap ton of it. I guess that means the previous owner did a lot of cast aluminum welding. It did come with some 4043 and it does a lot better but I need to get some more of it.This was just practice trying to weld on something round since the genesis of this whole project was a radiator I am about to need to weld some round mounting pucks onto. This was about 3/8 wall welded to 1/4 plate. You can see I was getting the a/c balance action.Stacking dimes on flat 3/16 plate. The crappy welds at the top were what I was getting when I tried to use that old package of 5356 rods. That crack at the top right made me realize I need to feed a little extra rod at the beginning of each weld, too.Just seeing how big a gap I could fill if I had to. (I couldn't get my phone to focus on it for some reason.)Some steel I was playing on my first day. I'm a little better now with the thoriated tungsten. I forgot I took these the other day, didn't take any steel pics today.
I was using the 5356 because the machine came with a crap ton of it. I guess that means the previous owner did a lot of cast aluminum welding. It did come with some 4043 and it does a lot better but I need to get some more of it.
This was just practice trying to weld on something round since the genesis of this whole project was a radiator I am about to need to weld some round mounting pucks onto. This was about 3/8 wall welded to 1/4 plate. You can see I was getting the a/c balance action.
Stacking dimes on flat 3/16 plate. The crappy welds at the top were what I was getting when I tried to use that old package of 5356 rods. That crack at the top right made me realize I need to feed a little extra rod at the beginning of each weld, too.
Just seeing how big a gap I could fill if I had to. (I couldn't get my phone to focus on it for some reason.)
Some steel I was playing on my first day. I'm a little better now with the thoriated tungsten. I forgot I took these the other day, didn't take any steel pics today.
