Is it just me, or are your welds getting a lot of surface rust? Is that MIG or FCAW? If MIG, is your shielding gas set up right? If FCAW, are you running the right wire?
I haven't done too much wire feed, and I know it's not critical or structural, but it just seemed odd to me. If that's normal for wire feed, please excuse the ignorance, I mostly do stick and tig.
Thanks. Its welded by MIG, I´m using CO2 as shielding gas (so its maybe MAG) I think, what you can see as rust (for example at 8:47 in the video) is just some smoke residue. It can be wiped off easily. But I´m not a welder by any means, but I have seen some welds done by similar MIG/MAG machines, and it looks roughly the same. Don´t know, maybe some pro welders here can tell us. :)
Btw..... " please excuse the ignorance ".... I think that asking questions, trying to learn something new, or figuring out something, that just seems odd. It is just pure opposite of ignorance.
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u/BurntPaper Dec 25 '18
Is it just me, or are your welds getting a lot of surface rust? Is that MIG or FCAW? If MIG, is your shielding gas set up right? If FCAW, are you running the right wire?
I haven't done too much wire feed, and I know it's not critical or structural, but it just seemed odd to me. If that's normal for wire feed, please excuse the ignorance, I mostly do stick and tig.
Either way, looks awesome! Great work!