Getting started with O/A

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Originally Posted by olcarguy

Rebar is hard to weld at the best of times, made with cheap **** steel. Get some pieces of scrap plate or sheet, not galvanized, and try that. Cut some blanks about 2" by 4" try putting a bead down without using any filler. When you have mastered that try a t joint and a lap joint.....

That's kind of what I fugured. I just wanted to try my first weld on the cheapest scrap I had. Even with the #0 tip, I was able to melt chunks out of the rebar. It was 3/8" rebar BTW.