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Originally Posted by dseretakis
You will be duplicating a lot of spot welds with a technique called plug or rosette welding. This is done by drilling a small hole maybe 7mm in diameter in a panel and then placing that panel over another to which you want to weld it to. Clamp the two panels together tightly and then weld the hole shut by slowly welding around the periphery and then towards the center until it's closed.
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Not the plan - I'll be buying a spot welder for making spot welds. All I'm trying to do at this stage is to make some sound good quality beads.
I'm not showing the butt weld messes I've made. I'm embarrassed enough with what I've shown so far.
I'm going to practice making some bead welds with 2mm rods on this 1.5mm sheet I've got. When I've worked out how that is meant to go then I'll try the butt welds again.
Once that has been mastered I'll go back to the 1.6mm rods on the 0.7mm sheet and see if I can do it any better. I've got a feeling that I'll need thinner rods to weld properly on the 0.7mm sheet. I think the spark is way too hot.
Question:-
Does anyone know if - on planet earth - you can obtain 1mm flux coated welding rods?