Quote (jimmyhoud @ Feb 4 2013 09:41pm)
Yikes, Turn up the heat or turn down the wire feed man!
+1... You could really use some welding lessons...
For welding around small diameter flanges/whatever (If you can't run a continuous bead around the whole thing), try welding over top of your starts, like this:

Once you get some heat going, you can melt down the big blob from your previous start and get it to look halfway decent, even with multiple starts/stops.