Improving your welding?

[Furu]

Since you asked, First thing I would do is stop trying to weld metal that is thicker than your machine is capable of. Your machine is dual voltage, use it for what it is meant to do.
Second, I would start listening to to what has already been said on a bunch of different threads. Stop belly aching everytime you post of a picture of your welds and somebody critizes them.. By all means, post more pics of your weld, ask questions, and stop the basted arguing when you have already been told a hundred times your welder isnt designed to weld 1/2 plate on 110v. Facts are facts, every manufacturer of 110v mig welding machines will tell you the machine isnt designed to weld over 3/16 and it will say so right on the welder in most cases. Its a fact, learn to deal with it.

+1:thumbsup:

 

[Reverser]

Actually, the ones that I hear doing the bellyaching are the ones giving Sodo a hard time. Reminds me of a pack of yapping dogs that turn on the one that don't follow along.

Give it a rest. Sodo has as much right to post as anyone else.

 

[roadhunter]

Actually, the ones that I hear doing the bellyaching are the ones giving Sodo a hard time. Reminds me of a pack of yapping dogs that turn on the one that don't follow along.

Give it a rest. Sodo has as much right to post as anyone else.

+1:thumbsup:

 

[muddstopper]

Actually, the ones that I hear doing the bellyaching are the ones giving Sodo a hard time. Reminds me of a pack of yapping dogs that turn on the one that don't follow along.

Give it a rest. Sodo has as much right to post as anyone else.

Dont be led into temptation, but deliver yourselfs from Evil.

 

[firemanmike69]

Have we cut and bent the test plate yet?

 

[Sodo]

Since you asked, First thing I would do is stop trying to weld metal that is thicker than your machine is capable of. Your machine is dual voltage, use it for what it is meant to do.
Second, I would start listening to to what has already been said on a bunch of different threads. Stop belly aching everytime you post of a picture of your welds and somebody critizes them.. By all means, post more pics of your weld, ask questions, and stop the basted arguing when you have already been told a hundred times your welder isnt designed to weld 1/2 plate on 110v. Facts are facts, every manufacturer of 110v mig welding machines will tell you the machine isnt designed to weld over 3/16 and it will say so right on the welder in most cases. Its a fact, learn to deal with it.

This footpeg bracket (from earlier post) is 1/2" steel, welded with 120v. It worked OK because the bracket doesnt have a lot of mass. The owner was thrilled.

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Sorry Mudd, your suggestion doesn't "fit" the program. :laughing: actually I was referring to welding techniques, not the philosophy part.

 

[Arc weld]

Arc, I must be really be missing something. You and SA appear to still have an axe to grind with Sodo... and while I don't know him, it appears he is trying to put the silly feud behind him. He is just one guy throwing in his two cents and it is worth something, just maybe not to you. I am not trying to take sides at all but I will admit I get a lot out of listening to many here on TBN... regardless of their credentials, experience, and manners.

Sometimes I bite my own tongue when I listen someone talk about a particular subject matter especially when I consider myself much better informed. For instance, when a person starts explaining dynamic vs. static loads and references testing of aircraft wings. I happen to know more than a little about that subject as I spent a few of my years intimately involved in static and fatigue (dynamic) testing of full scale aircraft... but I didn't chime in and let the poster know that he is just a hobbyist or whatever in that subject and as such he should stop spewing incorrect info. Instead I think that person was just trying to do the best he could... no?

The way I see it, there is always an opportunity to learn from others regardless of where you see them on a particular totem pole.

I don't have an axe to grind. I'm curious with Sodo doing everything on 110 volts and trying to justify it so much that he bought a dual voltage machine? I think that's a legitimate question. I do have a bit of a problem when someone/anyone posts a picture of a bad weld and instead of listening to what others have to say, tries to justify it and make excuses for it. We've all done some less than stellar work but if you can't take constructive criticism, you'll never improve. I've had other engineers say they are 3 types of loading, static, dynamic and cyclic loading. The basic understanding I was taught, over 30 years ago, was that static loading is something that just sits there, like a base plate on the bottom of a table leg. A dynamic load is something that could have changing loads but not necessarily cyclic. I would consider something like a spreader bar or a lifting hook a dynamic load and weld it as such. A lot of structural steel is static in use but welded with filler metal designed for dynamic loading. 6013/7014 for example aren't approved for welding structural steel. Even the saddles for large vessels that do just sit there are welded as if they were dynamic loads. For some things you really need to know exactly what to do and for other things all you need is a basic understanding. If a person erred on the side of caution and used 7018 on a project instead of 6013 because they weren't sure isn't likely anything to be concerned with. Welding thicker material than a welder is rated for is cause for concern.

 

[Sodo]

I don't have an axe to grind. I'm curious with Sodo doing everything on 110 volts and trying to justify it so much that he bought a dual voltage machine? I think that's a legitimate question.

I don't think I've ever heard a more legit question on TBN. Arc you've asked that several times, do you really want to know the answer and if I can explain it will it reduce the tension?

 

[Arc weld]

You were asking about getting 220 hooked up so I figure you'd like to have 220 eventually. I'm not always doom and gloom, sometimes there's a full moon and I like to howl at it.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

I don't think I've ever heard a more legit question on TBN. Arc you've asked that several times, do you really want to know the answer and if I can explain it will it reduce the tension?

Go for it, now I'm curious