Help Welding a Welder Cart

[DaveH]

(06-13-2012, 06:58 AM)Rickabilly Wrote: DaveH asked where to point the wire, I think he meant when welding the open end of a box section to the side of a box section of the same size,
The answer here is to point the wire mostly at the radius of the side of the box section and set your welder to build a little more bead than you would normally use on a butt weld, as the bead grows it will "catch" the edge of the open end of the other tube, at this point slowly move along while maintaining your torch at the same angle, as the weld will catch the full width of the open end you will achieve full penetration without blowing through.

Making Good welds is always more fun than struggling with bad ones

Best Regards
Rick

Hi Rick,

I did ask, and I was referring to the drawing that Ed posted in post #36 the left hand drawing. There is always that "big gap"......... so I aim for the radius part and go from there.

Thanks Rick

DaveH