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Originally Posted by ptlyon
I'd just have DJ do it for ya
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"Make stacks of dimes. Push the puddle."
Thus endeth my lesson as it's really all I know. Little circles in a fairly steady pattern, as soon as you get a puddle start moving it along or you'll blow out the metal.
Welding isn't about knowing how to do it - it's about being able to do it. It's such a feel thing. Someone can explain it to you all day and it sounds like the easiest thing in the world.
It...uh...ain't.
I truly suck at it. There's sticking piece of metal A to piece of metal B, and then there's
welding. The former gets you those sorts of booger welds I've done that are sometimes no more than flux acting as superglue. Those are bad. Don't do those on a car because you'll die. The latter is when you use the flux to act as a binder between the puddles of melted metal and now two pieces aren't stuck together - they've simply become a single piece.
Remember that flux isn't glue - it's a binding compound of sort. The idea is to get the two pieces of metal to almost literally join into a single piece.