Any ideas?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:09 pm
I have been working at my first welding job for about 4 months and i started off on 2 different welding machines, now i am on my third which is a millermatic 251 pretty much exactly like the first machine i started on. I started off welding pretty well on the first machine with some noticeably good welds. My wrist started hurting 2-3 weeks ago and i started taking it easy. now when i weld it looks like garbage (most of the time) and i cant seem to get back into the groove. I keep messing with the settings/chair height/pretty much anything i think will help and nothing seems to work. I do think this machine i am currently on is not as good as the others or i am just incapable of setting it up. It is really embarrassing because i do have an associates in welding and fabrication but i was insanely out of practice when i started the job. The material we are welding is 3/8's hot rolled plate with 1/4 inch angle iron welded to it to make brackets. as i stated before the machine is a millermatic 251 on 75/25 argon/co2. Anyone's insight into what might help is greatly appreciated. attached are some pictures. Top pic is earliest, middle picture is latest, and bottom picture was somewhere in between.