[ddmckee54]

Blender:

No doubt the welds look pretty, I doubt that they'd hold up to the typical clamp it in a vise and beat it back and forth with a hammer to see if the weld's stronger than the base metal test. But then again, we aren't trying to build anything that you'd really call structural are we?

The videos that I've seen using filler are using filler wire that's in the 0.005"-0.010" range. I'm guessing that with the bigger 0.030" wire you blow a chunk off of it and probably wind up with the rest welded to the part?

Don