Check out my first joint weld! Woohoo!

izanuff · 06-20-2008, 06:44 PM

aint it sexy! lol

frankkl · 06-20-2008, 07:40 PM

FOCUS! nice????

izanuff · 06-20-2008, 08:18 PM

camera phone! lol

Bigboyky · 06-21-2008, 03:47 AM

not bad..... for a first

**Jerry Bransford** · 06-21-2008, 06:46 PM

Hey that's a great first weld, you must have read some manuals/instructions before you did that one. Heck I wish all of my welds looked that good.

newtjrjrjr · 06-22-2008, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerry Bransford

Hey that's a great first weld, you must have read some manuals/instructions before you did that one. Heck I wish all of my welds looked that good.

well they might look better without the eyepatch

**Jerry Bransford** · 06-22-2008, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by newtjrjrjr

well they might look better without the eyepatch

Ya think?

izanuff · 06-23-2008, 12:52 AM

haha.. Thanks Jerry. In my platoon we have a few welders and machinist. So I had a little help. Had some junior Marines teach me something for a change.

Ran quite a few beads on flat scrap before I graduated to the joints. Next to learn is vertical welds. I tried once. Wow that seems more complicated. Then off to bending and notching tube. Give me a few weeks for those pics.

**Slawth** · 06-23-2008, 02:55 PM

That weld would look even better if you had prepped the base metal properly. Just as important as learning to run a bead.

izanuff · 06-24-2008, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by NHCJ5

That weld would look even better if you had prepped the base metal properly. Just as important as learning to run a bead.

very true. I wire wheeled some scrap down to bare metal yesterday and man did they look clean. I am using the spoolmatic gun right now and it seems harder to use than the little hand gun. But figured I would practice with both.