I find the "stuttering start" to be pretty common at the level you described. A constant-voltage source must adjust current to the joint resistance, and at certain settings, it takes a half-second or so to stabilize. The circuit that does this can only be tuned to be "ideal" at ...

I do the same thing. I rebuilt my dirt bike and made a bottle opener out of the old rod. Thing is BEEF,

Auto set has never worked well for me. I run beads on scrap to set the machine how I want it then do it for real. And I am using a strong hand tools copper ground clamp. Ground is NOT an issue lol.

I was worried about burn through on the 060 steel square tubing, not the edge of a 3'x4' 1/4" steel plate, lol. The cold start is not evident in the weld; id back track just like you said and it made a good, strong, even pretty weld. It is annoying and I'm wondering if maybe I just needed a smi...

I wasn't overhead but I was welding hirizontal. I had the machine set where I was comfortable and I wasnt just melting metal, lol. I tacked the top in a few places on each side then backstep welded each side in opposite directions on each parallel to prevent warpage. It came out really well. My grou...

Howdy all! I searched but didn't find a ton...but didn't search for days so excuse me if this is a repeat thread. Now the meat: I was building a welding table and welding a 1/4" mild steel top to the 060 1x2" steel frame using .035 wire and 25/75 gas on my Miller 211 on 230V and I was gett...