Quote Originally Posted by DVA View Post
Some days welding does not go as planned.

I have attached some of my practice welds. I was filling good with some horizontal welds and tried to run some ~16 inch vertical welds in a groove with some scrap angle iron. The first vertical welds were horrible and I almost walked away because the welds were not going as planned. I slowed down and after a few warm up stitches the vertical welds improved. Some times these bad welds help teach us what not to do and is not all waisted time.

Picture 1 is my last vertical weld after my bad vertical welds in picture 1. Picture 3 is the horizontal welds I was filling good with.
1 and 3 look pretty decent. Woudl work out just fine in a real application.

#2 has uses too...like maybe you wanted to turn some water orange...put the water in a 5 gallon bucket and dunk that bad boy in for a few days....viola....orange water. :-)