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And so it has come to this: my sum total of welding for the weekdays of this week thus far has been a solid ten minutes! Whatever. It was all I could do to put that time together for these piddly little welds, but I had to do it. I’m testing some settings and whatnot based on what the guys online are telling me to do. The two lines with the arrows written to the left are ones where I deliberately pulled the torch very far away from the work piece (very far = over 1/4″, btw), and watched to see what it would do. You can see that the weld looks funny, kinda gray, and that there are holes in it (porosity). That’s our lesson for today kids: keep a short arc length!

Thank you, and goodnight.