Thanks! I'll give those a shot and see if I can improve the bead profile.

Thanks for the help guys. I checked all my connections to the gas tank and made sure my polarity is correct. Turns out the mig gun wasn't seated completely in the machine, so completely my fault. I checked after to make sure gas is coming through the nozzle and it is. The "bacon sound" is ...

Forget about the craters. You have a shielding gas issue. I can see porosity hiding its ugly head. Means oxygen is making its way into the weld puddle in large amounts. Go back to square 1 all the way back to the tank, and do leak tests with soapy water to see where the leak is. Check the machine a...

Hey folks, I've been wanting to learn how to weld for awhile now and since the pandemic I've decided to pick it up and try to teach myself a new skill. This is a hobby for me and at the most I'd use it to do jeep repairs/upgrades and maybe odd jobs and projects around the house. Till then I'd just l...

Hey folks, I've been wanting to learn how to weld for awhile now and I've decided to pick it up and try to teach myself a new skill. This is a hobby for me and at the most I'd use it to do jeep repairs/upgrades and maybe odd jobs and projects around the house. Till then I'd just like to learn as muc...