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90amp tig or mig. I always get the two mixed up! No gas just the wire feed which kept sticking and messing up! There must be some kind of "You Failed" award given by this forum! LoL
I could probably just Bondo up everything and paint it. Who would know?
OK. You said wire so that's a MIG. You said "no gas" so that means you're using fluxcore wire, which works similar to the flux coated welding rods of a stick welder. As the flux burns it pulls impurities out of the weld and creates a shielding gas to prevent the oxygen in the air from contaminating the weld. If you're using regular unfluxed MIG wire it won't work without gas. If you're using flux cored wire (or plain MIG wire with gas) DON'T blow the smoke away with a fan. It blows away the shielding gas. I'd bet the farm you're using unfluxed wire or a fan or both. Fix that weld, it doesn't look like it'll hold up two butterflies.