I've been practicing my stick welding recently. I now produce fairly good welds on 1.6mm wall material with a 3.15mm rod on 140A, which I could never do in the past. The only thing to be careful of is blowing holes which happens with GREAT ease if the bits being welded together have anything more than a 1mm gap. It does however seem a bit barbarian to be using such a high setting and thick rod on such thin material.
Normally I would have used a 2mm rod on around 90A. That was fine for gates n such, but it did really lack penetration.
That said I am hoping to get my DC inverter early in the new year.
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Regards (The mad Sarf Efriken)
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