Welding Aluminum with a MIG spool gun for the first time EVER

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Welding Aluminum with a MIG spool gun for the first time EVER. I bought the Millermatic 211 and the spoolmate 100 spoolgun with dreams of building diamondplate tool boxes, wakeboarding towers and dreams of sugar plums dancing in my head. However, with such high expectations and aspirations comes a fear of failure. I've waited a long time before even making an attempt because of this fear to fail. With a day off due to the 4th of July holiday and motivated by Jody from weldingtipsandtricks.com I thought I'd take an opportunity to practice laying beads on a piece of scrap alluminum I've had laying around the back 40 for the the last 7-8 years. As it turns out, old aluminum that's very oxidized and weathered creates a lot of soot and dross as you see in the video. It did make for some good practice for tip angle, stick out, and heat. Aluminum is expensive and you don't want to learn lessons on warping and cracking on something you've put a lot of time and money into.