Mig Welding Procedures DIY

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Plus mig welding safety is important too. So go grab your welding helmet, gloves, safety glasses, C-clamps, stainless steel wire brushes, scrap aluminum get everything within your reach.

This is good boat building information or just your next DIY welding project.

Key: Use these scraps to adjust adjust the machine. Everything plays apart in the final outcome on your weld.

Set machine from 1-10, look in the manual for how many amps for number to equal 160-170 amps.

80 percent of 200 amps is 160 amps

next set the argon gas flow on your tank, around 25-30.

How fast the aluminum welding wire comes out is important so lets set the wire feed, Set it for what you want to do. Set the speed of wire at the middle range -scale of 1-5 or 1- 100, what ever yours has set it in the middle.

I know this is going to sound strange but by the sound.

- turn machine on

- hold the tip of the gun at a 45 degree angle to your weld. Do not actually touch the tip on the aluminum.

- pull trigger on spool gun, the wire will start feeding out and will start the arc welding.

Key: Now comes the sound, listen, if it is pop, pop, pop, this means your gun is being pushed away from the weld. Your wire feed needs adjusting. Turn the wire feed a little slower, try again.

- keep trying and turning the spool adjustment down till a steady hum, buzz comes out of the weld.

* if at any time wire welds itself to the tip, the feed is to slow, change tip and adjust feed.

* you may want to start out to fast, adjust down to save money on replacing tips

* figure on replacing tips every 4 or 5 spools of wire from normal welding use

more mig welding procedures... Start welding in 2-3 inch beads then stop, take wire stainless steel brush, clean it. This is going to tell you if the amps are set to properly.

Key: if weld is high and looks like a snowball - the weld is too cold - amp too low

Key: if weld is flat and edge under cut -means too hot -adjust downward slightly

A good weld should be raised slightly above base metal with no under cutting -it should be even with base metal.

Test welding should be done every time you change welding metal configurations (inside 90 degrees or outside 90 degrees), different positions, types of joints change the amount of heat.

Make sure you pay attention to the amount of wire left on spool.

Stop welding when you have two or three feet of wire left. If you run out of wire while welding you have burn back

* Improper adjustment for the cone can cause burn back. Cone is suppose to be in front of tip.

- tips are made out of copper - copper is expensive

mig welding procedures DIY last tips,

- bad contamination makes weld weaker

- don't weld if you have any sign of moisture

- tighter leather gloves make it easier to pick objects up

- don't over-heat an area, it will cause it to warp and bend

- if you had a lot of splattering, popping while your welding regrind area or weld back out and re-weld area



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