Our horse riding club is building New stock pens, and they are using looks
like 1/4"thick 3 -4 diam. well pipe. They are using a Big Stick welder and
I can say the welds really looked bad. I took a look last night and I could
see they were melting into the pipe and the welds look like they were just
rubbing the rod down the joint and not doing a circular motion. I don't
blame them for grinding them down to look better, But I think they are going
to loose the strength. What should there settings be to do 1/4 well pipe.
Maybe they have it set wrong....
I claims to be a welder, but he claims to be every thing else also.. (Jack
of all, Master of none) I can see I can do better my self....
I picked up some of there scrap and I will do some of my own welds, then I
hope to show him what a weld should look like.
Can a miller 135 weld 1/4 well pipe on a 2 pass or even a 1 pass using flex
core? I will be getting that right after the holidays and if I can find a
stick welder reasonable I will get one of them down the line.
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18 years ago