striker
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Hey all,
Yesterday was treat myself day, because the summer has been lousy and I just needed to spend some money which would have normaly gone down the fillercap on the striker.
so I bought an older cebora Mig machine 125apms which had been converted to run gas. it was in pretty bad shape but a day of fidling with the wire feeder and the gasvalve + making a new side cover because the old one wasn't there, I was finaly ready to do my first practice this evening.
I have very little experience in welding myself, so I did a few tests on 3 pieces of round 4301 steel tube 1.5mm wallthickness I had lying around. tell me what you think. if it's ok I can finally start on the SC mounts for the engine.
here's the machine
![a_251.jpg a_251.jpg](https://www.lextreme.com/forums/data/attachments/13/13891-c45415d6c731b0598e8cde352b6cb4e1.jpg?hash=xFQV1scxsF)
here's the welds
the left one is the first try and the right one is the second with a little more wire feed which made it sound the way I normally hear my friend doing it, a sort of "crispy" is that right? I cleaned the right one with a wire brush
I had the current on low mode, but I don't realy understand the gas meter, I turned it up some and the welds don't look poreus so it's probably ok, can you have to much gas?
![a_252.jpg a_252.jpg](https://www.lextreme.com/forums/data/attachments/13/13892-b120f1829860b0bde64140041669e1c5.jpg?hash=sSDxgphgsL)
Grtz Thomas
Yesterday was treat myself day, because the summer has been lousy and I just needed to spend some money which would have normaly gone down the fillercap on the striker.
so I bought an older cebora Mig machine 125apms which had been converted to run gas. it was in pretty bad shape but a day of fidling with the wire feeder and the gasvalve + making a new side cover because the old one wasn't there, I was finaly ready to do my first practice this evening.
I have very little experience in welding myself, so I did a few tests on 3 pieces of round 4301 steel tube 1.5mm wallthickness I had lying around. tell me what you think. if it's ok I can finally start on the SC mounts for the engine.
here's the machine
![a_251.jpg a_251.jpg](https://www.lextreme.com/forums/data/attachments/13/13891-c45415d6c731b0598e8cde352b6cb4e1.jpg?hash=xFQV1scxsF)
here's the welds
the left one is the first try and the right one is the second with a little more wire feed which made it sound the way I normally hear my friend doing it, a sort of "crispy" is that right? I cleaned the right one with a wire brush
I had the current on low mode, but I don't realy understand the gas meter, I turned it up some and the welds don't look poreus so it's probably ok, can you have to much gas?
![a_252.jpg a_252.jpg](https://www.lextreme.com/forums/data/attachments/13/13892-b120f1829860b0bde64140041669e1c5.jpg?hash=sSDxgphgsL)
Grtz Thomas