Welding Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone!

I'm new to the welding community, looking to learn. My welding interest lie solely in Automotive Sheet Metal Fab/Repair and Exhaust Pipe, as a hobby. I am an absolute noob, and will be using a new to me HF Chicago Electric Flux 125 (Item # 63582) paired with Lincoln Electric Innershield 0.035 Flux Core Wire. Tried some test welds on some scrap ThirdGen Camaro floor pan metal... it was a DISASTER, so I'm here to let the pro's school me!

Welcome

Welcome! Post some pics and info in a new thread, we'll try to help ya out. Flux core on thin sheet metal is pretty hard to do since innershield runs pretty hot. But post up some pics of the welder and parts and someone here should be able to give some pointers

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CentralOhDIYer wrote:Hello everyone!

I'm new to the welding community, looking to learn. My welding interest lie solely in Automotive Sheet Metal Fab/Repair and Exhaust Pipe, as a hobby. I am an absolute noob, and will be using a new to me HF Chicago Electric Flux 125 (Item # 63582) paired with Lincoln Electric Innershield 0.035 Flux Core Wire. Tried some test welds on some scrap ThirdGen Camaro floor pan metal... it was a DISASTER, so I'm here to let the pro's school me!

the first thing you do is go find the scrap bin................ and throw that welder in it !

flux core welders are the cheapest nastiest welders to use and you spend more time fighting the machine than learning to weld. once you learn to weld you will weld better than what that machine can and you will throw it in the bin. so save some time and aggravation and throw it away now.

get yourself a nice little inverter arc welder. arc welders are the best thing to learn with.
once you have learnt to weld, then you will have a better idea of what you want and you can get a mig welder and start getting into sheet metal work.