On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:37:02 -0500, Ignoramus23519
wrote:




I would suspect slow feed, no gas or wrong gas, but in any case Ig's
troubleshooting procedure looks right to me.

Thanks. No gas would still let him "weld", but the weld would
immediately be characteristically rusty looking (in addition to being
bad). I welded with no gas just to test a bunch of welders for sale,
that is how I know.

i
I do it every now and then when I forget to turn on the gas. But it
doesn't sound right when I do that so I stop to see what's wrong.