Some welding beads.

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Here are some mig and stick welding beads.  Brand new to welding so be nice.The two outside beads I attempted c weaves and the two in the middle are just straight lines:  Miller 210, .35 wire.  Settings 4 and wire speed is 48.  1/4 inch plateClose up:These are some stick welds: The one in the middle is top down.  The ugly ones on the left were my attempt at bottom up.  All the others were flat.  Done with a lincoln ac225, 6011 rod.  I think I was set on 110.  1/4 inch plate
Reply:Mig looks good..Stick on the other hand may need some help..What size was the rod you had?...zap!I am not completely insane..Some parts are missing Professional Driver on a closed course....Do not attempt.Just because I'm a  dumbass don't mean that you can be too.So DON'T try any of this **** l do at home.
Reply:The farthest right mig weld looks great. The others look a bit cold to me. Yeah your stick needs major work. Please try and size the picts. I can't read all of your type because the pict pushes it off the screen.I'm curious what rod and size you were trying to use. How do your flat and horizontal welds look in stick. Forget trying to do vertical if you flat and horizontal welds look like crap.All in all not too bad. Keep practicing and post some more picts with your settings, rods, size ans so on. Good luck.
Reply:Sorry about the size...I resized to 800x600.  The stick welds were on a lincoln 225 s with 6011 rod.  3/32 and I had the setting at 105.  Thanks for the input.  Im so hooked on welding right now.  I went out and picked up the miller and a hypertherm powermax 600.  I work in an office all day...so I love coming home and making stuff.  My stick welding looks much better with 6013 rod. Ive been trying to practice my stick welding so that when I get an extra alternator/welder setup in my jeep, I can fix stuff on the trail.  6011 seems to be the preferred rod on the trail since it will weld through paint and dirt....Dave
Reply:Your too hot for 3/32 6011 at 105 amps. I think at that size you should be between 50-85 amps on AC.
Reply:Learn to run your sticks flat first. You will learn a whole lot about how they act that way and it will help you a lot when you start other positions. That amperage is way too hot for 3/32 6011. I run it at about 90, but I have many many years of practice and get told I sure do run hot all of the time. The 10 class rods can be run uphill with considerable practice but it will never be pretty. It really only works well in a fillet or a beveled joint and keep in mind you are in a constant fight with gravity. The 10 class electrodes were designed for downhill pipe welding but also work well for other things  and with practice can lay in some really smooth beads running downhill.The mig weld on the right is getting there. Concentrate your heat to the bottom side of the joint. If they hump up you need to do one of three things. Turn the heat up a little, turn the wire speed down a little or move faster.In both processes learn to run stringers first. Once you have those down right and are consistent with them then you can start to work on weaves. The ASME and API codes I normally work under specify stringer beads with a width of no more than 2 1/2 times the diameter of the electrode meaning if you are using say 1/8 7018 your bead can be no more than 5/16ths of an inch wide regardless of position. I have been on jobs where they actually measure each bead before the next pass can be made.Get yourself a copy of "The Procedure Handbook of Arc Welding" from the Lincoln Foundation. It is a large volume and basically everybody who is anybody in the welding world was involved in putting it together. It will give you a heck of a jump start and is an excellent reference on the subject. I've been using it for 35 years now and haven't found anything in it that isn't dead on correct. The key to welding is practice until you can't stand it and then practice some more. I do it everyday for a living and still consider every weld to be practice for the next one.Last edited by Jolly Roger; 07-17-2008 at 05:47 PM.Reason: added toThe difference between art and craft is the quality of the workmanship. I am an artist.
Reply:Jolly R, That is great info, thank you.  "The Procedure Handbook of Arc Welding" is that the one that everyone refers to as the "bible"?  Ill pick it up.  By hump up you mean looking more like the mig weld to the left in the close up?  That one was a stringer. All my stringers end up looking like that..so flatter is better?.  ..Ill try yours and the other suggestions and post up again in a couple of days.Miller 210Lincoln AC225-sHypertherm Powermax 600