Welding Bodywork

I am new to welding and today was the first bodywork welding that I have tried to do....I suck!!!!

I practiced on some scrap and it appeared that I was getting sorta OK penetration so I progressed to the real thing. All I did was blow blooming holes and have hot welder wire spit in my lap .

Can somebody suggest some solutions for me please? I am welding fresh metal on the rear panel at the point where it joins to the bracket that is on the boot floor. My new metal is 1.0mm. The welder is a 150amp affair and I have just put in a new spool of 0.6mm wire. The settings are shown here (pretty much I have tried several settings but even as low as it goes is blowing holes);



Following is a gallery of my inability. It's my first car restoration and as I said my first welding but I have read every thread on here and thought I might have half a chance.......

The gap around the new metal varies between 0.5mm to 1.5mm.





The next 2 from inside the boot didn't come out all that well so you cannot see the penetration I got on the tiny blob of weld that didn't blow.



Some thoughts I had as to reasons;

- I suck
- Insufficient earth. It splattered alot and stop-started. The bolt in the picture is there to hold the plate in place but also to provide an earth
- I had sprayed some weld through primer onto all surfaces before welding but I just could not get a decent earth (this was before I added the bolt). I cleaned it all off with a flat wheel. Maybe there was sufficient residue left to cause the spitting. I had already cleaned off all the etch primer that was applied after sand blasting.
- The gap between the panels is too large?
- I suck
- The wire feed was a little irregular. I think it was not coping with the weight of the new wire spool.

The weld thru primer that Adelaide Crash Suppliers sold me is;


Any help or ideas you can offer are greatly appreciated. There is only so much rear panel so I have to limit my hole blowing!!!!!!

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see if that works.....

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see if that works.....

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thanks fordsy. maybe the 40 degree weather today played a part?

any Adelaide blokes bored and wanna give a lesson hehe

how did you get the pics to show???

Have a search on Youtube for welding vids.

There's quite a few on there and should help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWoMat8nfbs&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsDxqb2p5OM

http://howtoasap.com/mig%20_weld%20_automotive_sheet_medal.html

the wire length varies from around 5mm from the tip to about 10mm. The wire speed is turned up a little as the lower it was set the more unwilling the welder was to move the wire. Too high and I found the tip being pushed away from the work.

Thought about a course but I need the car finished quickly (although I am not willing to substitute speed for quality).

Are you using .8mm wire? If so try some .6mm.
I found .8 was fine if welding to new steel, for original sheetmetal i found .6 was easier to control.

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