Lap Weld - Aluminium

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My practice at a lap weld, i ran out of filler rod and in hind sight i should have grabbed a new rod before starting. It was hard controlling the heat and stopping the thin pieces of aluminium from warping.
 I cut it down to see the penetration which was nice. There was even heat along the weld as well so pretty happy with it all

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