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flux-core with no gas nozzle?
I've got a microscopic amount of experience with MIG, and zero with
fluxcore, so bear with me he What happens if you weld fluxcore, and don't have the gas nozzle on the welder? I'll be repairing a bracket on my truck soon, and it'll be hard to get at. In my tiny MIG experience, the single hardest problem I had was clearly seeing the spark and the puddle; working under my truck's dashboard I'll need all the help I can get. I've never done fluxcore at all; every picture I've seen of fluxcore in use -- including rigs that can't be converted to gas -- has shown a gas nozzle just like for MIG around the contact tip. It isn't clear to me why this should be necessary -- since the shielding comes from the flux, it seems like it ought to work just fine to take the nozzle off, and get a better view of the work. This is with a cold torch, obviously. So... commnts? |
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