all about welding

[Phil Waterman]

All I can say is Practice, practice, practice, I have to force myself every time I have welding to do on a project to stop and practice before I try to do the welding on the "finished" part. I've found that if I take the time to get some scrap steel out of the same thickness of what I want to weld and practice until I can produce a good smooth weld it actually takes less time than grinding off the crappy first weld.

For me I need to run 1-2 feet of seam weld as practice or someplace where it won't show before I can produce a weld that I want other people to see.

But then again on CMPs they didn't clean off the splatter,the underside of my HUP looks like they held a welding class while they were fabricating it, there are some really crude welds. But remember this was mostly done with stick welders, none auto darkening helmets and somebody screaming hurry up we have another 50 to get done on this shift.

We have some guys in the club who are real well trained experience welders for them it doesn't matter if they haven't touched a torch in a year they pick it up and produce perfect welds.

Cheers Phil