Tomorrow I'm hacking up my pacesetter tip and muffler to make the tip fit

I will take your advice, lower wire feed

 

since you are going to be wrecking your old mufler to put a new tip on your new one you should use the wrecked muffler to do some practice. as long as its the same thickness. heres a quick step by step:

Turn welding to "ON" position (just joking lol)

Set wire feed and amperage in the middle range so if max is 10 then obviously set it to 5.

Start welding

If it looks like you have too much build up (thick weld) turn the wire feed down.

If you don't have enough build up or you are punching holes thru base metal turn the wire feed up.

Basically the rule is guess how much heat (amerpage) you need. then adjust the wire feed so it produces a clean esthetic looking weld accordingly.

I usually increase or decrease settings by 1 at a time then if you have a fancy welder you can set it between 1 and 2 say 1.5 for more accuracy. yours might be able to do this but some have stoppers in between each number/ letter

There hope its a pretty good crash course. ;-) Good luck my friend. ;-)

 

I guess I have a Fancy welder then lol.

Actually I'm selling my old muffler, the old tip was bolt on.

I have to trim the pipe leading to the tip by 3" and the outlet of my new muffler has to be trimmed 3".

Maybe tomorrow I will pick up a peice of sheet metal to practice with

 

And if you do develop any leaks you can just tack it up with a little spot weld.

Not bad for a first timer!

 

I need an angle grinder now lol

 

Ah , another necessity

Sweet deal you took upon yourself , with more practice youll get better . Its quite nice not having to rely on people . Youll never beable to go without one again , hehehe .

 

I took an entire semester of welding. You simply can't expect to know what you are doing without some training.

 

Good job for a first time. It takes a lot of practice bro. I had to have my buddy come over and show me how to use mine. I have a 115V wire feed welder as well. He did most of my downpipe because his welds look like a machine did them. (He has lots of practice) I gave her a couple whirls though and my 02 sensor bung weld came out pretty decent after practicing on a piece of extra tubing.

 

Everything I've learned about cars so far was done by myself with guidance from people on CSS.net.

Look at my first posts about a year and a half ago, I was ******* clueless about cars.

Without you guys I'd have nothing

 

You should be the poster child of online forums.

Not bad. Practice makes perfect. Go to a metal yard and pick up some scraps to dink around with. Best of luck.

 

Thats awesome dude, but we can't teach you to weld over the internet. It's a specialized skill that needs to be practiced. Get some scrap metal and make a welding table. Its a good first practice project.

 

yeah, i think I might go pick up some sheet metal tomorrow after school and dick around with it for awhile

 

Wooo hoo you got it one. Awesome. Them lower cost welders are a bit tricky. If you had it up on high you can try and slow the wire speed down a little. That might help.

 

Sheet metal can be difficult because of how thin it is. Might want to grab some 1/4" stock to play with also.

 

That's not too bad!

I work at a big welding supply store, we sell machines and supplies, etc. I've see guys do some work that's way worse than that and they call them selves welders lol

If there's any other guys out there that are thinking of doing some welding themselves then I'd recommend a new machine from Miller. It's call the Miller 140 w/ Auto Set. All you do is set it to the thickness of the metal and it worries about the other settings for you! Piece of cake!

Anyways with some practice you'll be a pro in no time!

 

That's salesman talk right there. Might as well just flip the lid and use the recomended setting chart. Although its never accurate since its predetermined on virgin metal and only for welding on top of something, not upside down.

 

This is what ive got


CAMPBELL HAUSFELD™ FARMHAND 85 WIRE FEED WELDER

http://www.mytscstore.com/detail.asp...productID=2246

 

Forney Industries has a new welder with auto adjust. At an Ace Hardware convention they had an eight year old make perfect welds with out any experience. If I remember right it is also small enough to carry in the palm of your hand. It can also be converted from MIG to TIG to a Plasma cutter.

 

Hey HackAbuse I think you just need to slow down and make little circles while moving the little puddle along the pipe. I would have to say mig welding is one of the most fun types of welding although I have never tried tig. a machine with gas makes nicer welds but if it is just you in your own garage then I wouldn't spend a tonn of money on one.

 

I'll turn the rate way down and work on taking my time tomorrow with some test metal

 

haha

 

LOL You've got to be joking... hahah

 

I've got some wax and some spare time to watch you if you want to practice washing and cleaning my car.

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Seriously, GJ on the car. Amazing what someone can learn over the internet.

 

lol, me?

Thanks. about a year and 3 months ago, I could look under to hood and not be able to find the throttle body, or hell, even the valve cover. It was all gibberish to me!

 

see i dont understand how that would work, the auto ajust thing, some people weld at diffrent speeds then others, back in autobody school i remember some freinds of mine would crank the setting up and fly through the stuff, while i had lower settings and was moving slower for a tad more precision/controll (atleast i thought)