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[hughJ]

Hello - it also looks like you did that welding upsides down - most impressive!!! Keep up the good work. I find upsides down welding an impossibility.

Hugh

[STREET TWEAKS]

Hello - it also looks like you did that welding upsides down - most impressive!!! Keep up the good work. I find upsides down welding an impossibility.

Hugh

lol thanks mate ( i think lol ) if you look at the pic of the car's underside i started from bottom to top ( top as in the sill ) . why am i doing it the wrong way round ?????

[minimuk]

what is your setting on your welder ( which one have you got there)?and what thickness wire are you welding with?

still you have done a double weld, inside and outside the car, will hold no probs, a bit more sanding down and after zinc priming some seam sealer.

[STREET TWEAKS]

what is your setting on your welder ( which one have you got there)?and what thickness wire are you welding with?

still you have done a double weld, inside and outside the car, will hold no probs, a bit more sanding down and after zinc priming some seam sealer.

i have a mig 90 welder wire speed 6/7 , power 2 min ( as this welder as 1 and 2 power setings and max and min ) for the wire i think it is 1.5

[minimuk]

Waw,... this is a very thick wire you use..... can I suggest that you use 0.6 mm wire, put speed to 5/6. thinner wire has lower melting point, if you balance the wire speed between 5-6, you won't have that problem of the 1.5mm not penitrating enough, plus you will have a smoother weld.
I have to admit, me too started with thick wire1.0 and even 1.2, then I went size down to 0.9 and then there was the Mini-Professor...... who told me,... use 0.6 and bar gas... Never changed it since.
Further don't blast gas at it when you are welding, even outside, you'r not that far away with the welding nozzle to the panel. Have a go at it and let me know

[STREET TWEAKS]

Waw,... this is a very thick wire you use..... can I suggest that you use 0.6 mm wire, put speed to 5/6. thinner wire has lower melting point, if you balance the wire speed between 5-6, you won't have that problem of the 1.5mm not penitrating enough, plus you will have a smoother weld.
I have to admit, me too started with thick wire1.0 and even 1.2, then I went size down to 0.9 and then there was the Mini-Professor...... who told me,... use 0.6 and bar gas... Never changed it since.
Further don't blast gas at it when you are welding, even outside, you'r not that far away with the welding nozzle to the panel. Have a go at it and let me know

will do mate thanks but i need to look at the wire size i think it is 1.5 but will let you know

[sonikk4]

If it is 1.5mm wire that is way way too thick. Like previously mentioned .6mm is fine although some other members advocate .8mm wire but to be honest .6mm will cover everything you need to weld on a mini.

[STREET TWEAKS]

looked at my welding wire today and it is 0.6 mm so in that case are my welds sitting hi (see picson page 4) thanks wayne

[minimuk]

Wayne, after all that, if it is 0.6 mm wire you use, I would decrease the spead from 6/7 to 5/6, and give the wire a chanse melt in and you can take it easy moving your welding gun,.... and ther wire does not push you away from the welding, your welds are high but I am sure penitration is fine, but you are using a lot of wire with that speed, hence high build-up. hope this makes sence.

[STREET TWEAKS]

Wayne, after all that, if it is 0.6 mm wire you use, I would decrease the spead from 6/7 to 5/6, and give the wire a chanse melt in and you can take it easy moving your welding gun,.... and ther wire does not push you away from the welding, your welds are high but I am sure penitration is fine, but you are using a lot of wire with that speed, hence high build-up. hope this makes sence.

ok mate wire speed down it is then, if i can do abit saturday after work i will drop you a line thanks mate

[STREET TWEAKS]

havein probs uploading pics help me

[minimuk]

havein probs uploading pics help me

never mind piccies for now, tell me the result, with a bit of exersize on a few bits of metal is the welding "neater" and easyer?

[minimuk]

havein probs uploading pics help me

right are you stuck getting the piccies on here??

[minimuk]

if it is how-to upload piccies,....

this new format is a bit confusing, however down below here bottum right hand corner, you have the POST block which you click what you have composed in this box.
Next to it it says "More Reply Options" if you press that you will get a simular box like this one you are writing in and on the left bottum of the page you will have a box, "Attach files",
to select pictures;...
underneath click "Browse" button, select your picture(s), click the "attach this file", then when all piccies or files are choosen, click "Attach Files".
click "Previeuw Post", and if you are happy with it click "Add Reply".
I hope this is what you wanted to know.

[STREET TWEAKS]

No still not working (sorry not shoutin at you mate just this FORUM) please tell me why i cannot upload my pics from photobucket , HA HA HA NOT LETING ME PUT A SMILEY ON TO so cryin smiley goes HERE.

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