So yeah, I found the problem. Thanks for all the help! The biggest help was that it is a lack of sheilding gas, and to put a bag over the end of the welding tip to see how much gas is coming out. It turns out that even though I could hear a slight hiss at the tip, there was very little gas coming out.
The last time that I used it I must have pulled on the welding cable. The thumb screw that holds it into the welder was loose, and the cable end had slid out enough to expose the o ring and allow it to dump the gas into the welder. I pushed the cable back in, tightening the thumb screw and it now fills a plastic bag real quick.
Tomorrow I will try my skill welding a patch panel in!
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