About Kenny Nyhus Fadil
Kenny Nyhus Fadil has been welding at home for several years. What started with a single cheap flux-core machine and a half-rusted utility trailer turned into a home shop full of MIG, stick, and TIG work — and a whole lot of grinding wheels. Every guide on HomeWelder is built from a real bead laid in his own shop before the article goes up.
Background
Kenny started welding the way most home welders do — by ruining a piece of mild steel. The first attempt at a trailer repair came out porous, undercut, and in places he could push a punch straight through the metal. Once he stopped chasing pretty welds and started reading manuals, dialling settings to the wire diameter, and prepping joints properly, the work finally held. The journal entries from that learning curve became the first guides on HomeWelder.
He manages a small portfolio of niche websites focused on craftsmanship and self-sufficiency. HomeWelder is the project where the welder, the grinder, and the writing all live in the same workshop.
Specialties
- MIG settings for thin-gauge work — wire speed and voltage targets for 16ga to 1/4″ mild steel using 0.030 and 0.035 ER70S-6 with 75/25 shielding gas.
- Stick welding outside the booth — 6010 root, 7018 fill on dirty or weathered steel where MIG can’t deliver clean penetration.
- Aluminum TIG basics — AC balance, frequency, and pre-flow settings for 1/8″ to 3/16″ 6061, including the cleaning ritual that actually matters.
- Flux-core for the entry-level garage — gasless setups for hobby work where running shielding gas isn’t practical, and the situations where the trade-offs are worth it.
- Heat control on thin sheet — tack patterns, skip-welding, and back-stepping techniques to keep 18ga and 20ga panels from warping into a potato chip.
- Equipment selection — the smallest reliable machine and PPE kit that actually delivers consistent results in a home shop, not the maximum-spec rig the marketing pages push.
Testing Approach
Every guide on HomeWelder is built from a real bead — laid, sectioned, ground back, and visually inspected before the article goes up. Tool reviews come after at least one full project of use, never on day one out of the box. The MIG settings tables, for example, came from welding the same 1/8″ coupon on three different machines (a budget Lincoln, a mid-range Hobart, and an Everlast) and recording what actually produced a clean bead at each amperage step, not what the chart on the side panel claimed.
Connect
Reach out through the HomeWelder contact page.