Thanks for the detailed advice. I'm going to pick up a #3 tip today and make all the other adjustments you mentioned. Hopefully that'll do the trick. I think so.

So the project piece I was working in I ended up zapping with a stick welder. But here's a picture of a piece that I recreated to try again and get a picture of. You can see in the picture there is a crater in the angle iron where if melted cleanly and quite quickly to. But that was only after a few...

Yes I know it's crazy to weld with Oxy acetylene but that's what I'm doing. I began learning it and experimenting with it one summer and I've had mixed results. After a 2 year hiatus due to a move I'm finally able to pick it up again during this crazy time of Corona virus. My first try back I'm real...