Thread: 47-55.1 Kel's '50 GMC 1/2 ton build
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Old 05-28-2018, 01:58 PM   #38
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Re: Kel's '50 GMC 1/2 ton build

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Thanks...fluxcore, no, operator error. Sometimes I just start welding without my glasses, forgot to turn gas on...

I know what you mean about that though. When I did my Firebird, that's how I started, it worked, but my welds improved when I switched to gas.
LOL, yep, been there. Did it yesterday with the torch even. Fired it up began to weld a bead and it was all oxy in the middle of the weld, then nothing, oh yeah, forgot to open the valves.

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