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woody · 01-18-05, 08:42 AM

I've been doing quite a bit of welding lately on the frame....mounts for the motor and tranny and such...anything that is horizontal or on a verticle plane is no problem

but anything that is upsidedown sucks....bottom of frame, bottom-side of any angles, etc....

Is there a good trick to not end up with chunks of weld spatter burning thru my shirt and leaving burn tracks down my chest/back??

Wire speed? Heat range? etc??

01-18-05, 08:42 AM	#1
woody Admin Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Appleton, WI TLCA# 1548 Posts: 7,676 Blog Entries: 1	Welding technique - WAY out of position... I've been doing quite a bit of welding lately on the frame....mounts for the motor and tranny and such...anything that is horizontal or on a verticle plane is no problem but anything that is upsidedown sucks....bottom of frame, bottom-side of any angles, etc.... Is there a good trick to not end up with chunks of weld spatter burning thru my shirt and leaving burn tracks down my chest/back?? Wire speed? Heat range? etc?? __________________ Brian 'woody' Swearingen 1974 FJ40 'The Raisin' - Pitbull Rockers, 30-spline Longfields, SOA - 1/4 ellip 1996 FZJ80 'Gretchen' - MetalTech, ARB, OME, IPOR, 4x4Labs 2003 2500HD Duramax - Edge/Juice/Attitude, 285 Nitto Terra Grapplers, 4" exhaust 'America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.' Abraham Lincoln