yunit
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The main reason I like to push my welds is so I can see WTF I am welding. 
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Tips on Welding
- Thread starter jekquistk5
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My gloves aren't soo bulky I cant feel anything, so I'm not worried about that. I guess everyone has there personal preference on welding, so I guess I just have to find which one suits me best. Thanks again guys
Tuff84blaze
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tRustyK5 said:
I know your the man at welding so I am going to go with what you say, but is this always the case? I thought the reason you pushed on thinner metal is because the bead spreads out wider and thus penatrates less.
Oh yeah 'JEKQUISTK5' don't know if you have checked out the hobart site, but there is a pretty good welding fourm over there http://hobartwelders.com/techtips.html
Well, a taller narrower bead is piling up on top of itself. A wider bead got that way because it has penetrated deeper allowing it to spread out. Imagine a blob of ice cream, the more it melts the lower and wider it gets. 
Run a few test beads, pull or push doesn't matter as long as you do it the same each time. Run the first one at the heat you like. Run the second one with less voltage. This might be tough to do on some home machines that only have 4 or 5 pre-sets for voltage, but generally the colder the setting gets the more you'll see the weld narrow up and get taller.
You can also go the opposite way and start turning it up...you should see the weld widen a little and also flatten out. This should help you see what a weld looks like at the extremes and help you understand good penetration visually. More heat = more dig. So, if the heat setting is the same and push gives you a flatter wider weld you can assume it's also penetrating better.
With the gasless wire it seems to dig decently enough either way, which is why I will push it or pull it depending on position and how tight the area I'm welding in is. Sometimes it's just easier to see what I'm doing one way or the other.
Rene
Run a few test beads, pull or push doesn't matter as long as you do it the same each time. Run the first one at the heat you like. Run the second one with less voltage. This might be tough to do on some home machines that only have 4 or 5 pre-sets for voltage, but generally the colder the setting gets the more you'll see the weld narrow up and get taller.
You can also go the opposite way and start turning it up...you should see the weld widen a little and also flatten out. This should help you see what a weld looks like at the extremes and help you understand good penetration visually. More heat = more dig. So, if the heat setting is the same and push gives you a flatter wider weld you can assume it's also penetrating better.
With the gasless wire it seems to dig decently enough either way, which is why I will push it or pull it depending on position and how tight the area I'm welding in is. Sometimes it's just easier to see what I'm doing one way or the other.
Rene
