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Originally Posted by marinabrian

You can grind away to your hearts content Andrew, however this won't remove the slag inclusions, undercutting, porosity, and lack of penetration.

In short it's absolute rubbish, and I wouldn't recommend anyone turning out work like that, it has been carried out with too much stickout, running backhand with the wire feed set too fast, and the current set too low, and the operator running too fast.

This is the problem, anyone can call themselves a welder, without the actual ability to weld.

Brian

You are right Brian and I agree with you.

Over the years I have welded, in an amateurish way, lots of old cars.

My first attempts were total rubbish but, as the saying goes, practise makes perfect.-- ( At least not rubbish. ) Then I found MIG welders.
Welding vastly improved overnight.
The welds were no longer brittle and a cross section of the weld showed it to be round with the steel properly fused together.---

Almost like a miracle.