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If you're the same one I'm thinking of I've seen some of your youtube vids. Good job and good explanation and techniques in the videos.

Thanks for the advice everyone. Sorry so late getting back but my schedule lately has been super tight. Without much welding experience and not much to offer I'm more of a lurker/learner anyway. The only welding I do at work is aluminum mig. I bought a tig/stick to start learning tig but haven't had...

Good tips on rod/amp selection. The windmill was really more of an accidental creation between my wife's thinking out loud and me looking for things to just stick together. Now my mother-n-law wants one. With the extra advice from veterans here I'll need to go pick up multiple rod sizes and numbers....

I did have several issues blowing through the be bedrails. When setting amps do you base it off of rod size, material size or both? I know experience plays the biggest roll but I have none with stick. Mig is much easier in material sizes. Just a matter of changing volts and/or wire speed. The first ...

301, I took a moment to edit your post so the picture shows, rather than just the link. On photobucket, under "share this photo", select the IMG option, copy and paste it directly into your post here, and the photo will show with the post. A nice simple project, requiring you to think, de...

Remember the important thing here is not how great or creative this is. The important thing is I'm king for the day and saved at least $30 from her buying something from a craft store.

I changed my lawn mower blades this morning. During the change my wife mentioned she wanted some kind of yard ornament to put by the garden to dress it up. The way the blades were laying gave me an idea. My first stick welding project began. She got a miniature windmill made out of bed rails and mow...

Will do. Funny how before I got my machine I had too much junk laying around. Now it seems I don't have enough scrap steel at all.

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My first attempt at stick welding

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And my somewhat stack

7018 @75 amps

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This is a second pass

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Whoo hoo. This is my first try at a seam

Thanks Dave. Did you use the image icon then copy and paste link?

I must be doing something wrong. I hate to sound like a dummy but I searched the forum for instruction on uploading photos and followed accordingly. Some sites have a required post count before pics are allowed. Could that be my issue?

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Haha yeah I guess I made that sound like mig was difficult. What I meant is I nitpick things about mig sometimes and compared to stick I have no problems with mig. As for sticking electrodes I'm pretty good at that. Sometimes I get smooth starts though. Through my eyes considering I burned my first ...

Picked up some 6011. Different animal than 7018. It's not as easy as I hoped it would be but a fun learning experience. Makes mig welding seem like a breeze. I'm sure I'll have many more questions. Thanks for the advice

I'm heading out shortly to pick up a couple different rods to learn the differences in how they weld. I'll be sure to get some 1/8. I'll also run some beads and increase one amp per rod.
Thanks for the input
Chris

I thought I was doing good with the 7018 until I realized the glowing red stick. Weld beads look better than my mig beads. Good ground,tight arc 75-85 amps, getting about 10" per rod. Then noticed 7018ac. I thought that may have been the problem so I switched to ac and glow stick once again. I'...

Hey all, I recently purchased an ac/dc stick/tig machine mainly because I want to learn tig. My experience is solely aluminum mig. I picked up some lincoln 3/32 7018 to test out stick. Is the 7018 a good choice for learning stacking beads and is there another rod you would recommend during my learni...

Thanks for the welcome.

I'm a long time viewer of Jody on youtube. I'm a structural fitter with only mig experience. I'm currently trying to learn stick and figured this forum would be the best for advice to help along the way. Glad to be here.