On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 03:10:29 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Tidy
wrote:
The bead at the center bottom isnt bad.
Well, I could do much better than that bead with 6013 rods. I'll give up
on these old rods and buy some fresh ones.
Chris
Go to your local welding place and get a pound of 6011 and try it.
Im concerned about your statement that the arc extinguishes though.
Does the sound of the welder change drasticly when this happens? Im
wondering if you may not have a wire or contact that opens under load.
Gunner
Looks like 6011 is what I need. I don't think I'll go for 7018 as I
don't have a rod oven and don't want to have to get one right now. I
need a rod that works on AC, too.
I'll probably buy more than a pound as it's a fair trip to the welding
supply store. A 5 kg box of 6013 was about £10 when I bought one last year.
Thanks to everyone for their advice.
Chris
Actually..you really dont need a rod oven for 70xx series rod, unless
you are doing actual life safety types of stuff where you need ZERO
hydrogen issues.
As long as its mostly dry..it welds (for me) just hunky dorey. I
did buy some rod from Harbor Freight once in a pinch..Chinese welding
rod. And it sucked with large slurppy sounds. I finally tossed 10lbs
of rod straight into the **** can in disgust. While Im not a "weldor",
I can generally stick a couple pieces of metal together well enough
most of the time and that stuff was utter trash.
I was browsing Ebay, using my local area as base of search and found a
clearance company that had some cans of Fleetweld in, 50lb cans that
no one was bidding on, simply because of the shipping weight and they
had some negative feedback. I dropped em an email asked if local
pickup was ok, and when they agreed, I bid and won a can. for $10USD.
When I showed up to pay and pick, I offered them a sum for every can
they had..about 16 of them. They hemmed and hawed..and finally agreed
so I went home with 800lbs of Lincoln Fleetweld in sealed cans, sold
them all except for a couple to my buddies and then spent the next
couple years burning them up.
Recently, I was in a clients shop and mentioned to one of the maint
workers that I was dabbling in welding. He perked up, and said "wait
here"..then split for a few minutes. He came back, asked me if Id take
$40 off my bill in trade for some :"welding stuff". Seems they had a
company policy change, would only allow certified outside welders do
their welding maint work..and had this "old welder" and " some rod"
that were surplus and I could buy it for that $40 discount.
It turned out to be a Miller Dialarc 250 (marked Airco Bumblebee) and
another 400 lbs or so of rod...of all kinds. Exotic and common stuff.
Stainless steel rod, hard facing cast iron rods, aluminum rod, nickle
rods and on and on....I gave the welder to a buddy, and kept the rod.
Some fascinating stuff in there...G Ive got a half dozen 5 lbs boxes
of a coated rod, black in color with a number Ive not been able to
cross reference...I think its stainless..but it wont rust, will make
absoultly beautiful welds no matter how badly I treat it and will
stick anything that has steel or iron anywhere in it, together. I save
it for special occasions G. The stuff is like using a hot glue gun.
brag/off
Buy or beg a pound of 6011, and try it out. If you were in my neck of
the woods, Id give ya some. (California)
Im 'long term" loaning out my Lincoln Tig 250/250 to a friend this
weekend, I need the room..shrug and Im starting to figure out the
Airco 300 amp square wave tig machine..finally able to weld aluminum
after replacing the breaker with a 60 amp one that wasnt 20 yrs old.
Good luck and let us know how the 6011 works out.
Gunner
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.
Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner
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