So I got home last night and tinkered with the welder, I wanted to try on the sheet metal piece that I have. I tried another outlet (whether that matters or not) and started thinking is there anything else I can do. Well from the welder being outside before, I decided to clean up the ground clamp. I wire wheeled the clamp itself, the contact on the ground wire, and even cleaned up the nut which had rust on it.
I played with the settings on the welder (like what was suggested earlier) and layed down some tacks on the sheet metal:
You can see as I tweaked the settings from top to bottom, the results got better...needless to say I was stoked to find out my welder isn't complete junk. I don't plan on doing any heavy welding, but if I keep tweaking the welder, it should take care of the little tasks I need it for. When I was laying down the tacks, I could hear that familiar buzz sound.
