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Everyone says learn forge welding before starting projects, took me 11 months just to get a decent lap weld
Kept burning my steel or getting cold shuts because I was running my coal too hot and rushing the heat. Finally stuck two pieces of 1/2 inch mild bar together last Tuesday after probably 60 failed attempts, and it only worked when I slowed way down and let the flux do its thing. Anyone else think the old timers oversell how fast you should pick this up, or did it just click for you quicker?
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oscarh1611d ago
Man, 11 months sounds about right and I say that as someone who spent two weeks trying to weld a chain link together and just made a bunch of tiny metal boogers instead. The old timers love to act like they picked up a hammer and just knew, but most of them were apprenticing under someone who could lean over and say "your fire's too hot, dummy" every five minutes. You had to figure out the coal temp and the flux timing all by yourself, which is a whole different game. Sixty tries before one decent lap weld is honestly not bad at all for teaching yourself, and the fact that slowing down fixed it tells me you actually get it now. That part about letting the flux do its thing is real, people rush the heat and the flux never gets a chance to float the junk out of the joint.
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