Does non flux coated wire go bad?
 

I have got a small hobart welder. (MIG). For some reason I could not
get the machien to weld right, like it did not have enough power. I
put new wire on and it worked fine. But, several weeks later whne I
went to use the welder again, same thign happened. It has rained alot
here. If this is moisture, can I bring the wire back to life?

Does non flux coated wire go bad?
 

stryped fired this volley in news:5c155cc8-f5f3-
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can I bring the wire back to life?

It's easy, Stryped.

Unroll all of it. Get some lightly oiled 0000 steel wool, and scrub off
every bit of corrosion and rust on the wire as you re-roll it.

When you're done, you'll have a nifty $500 roll of welding wire, and all
will be right with the world.

Or - just a suggestion - you could treat the welder and its supplies as
if they were tools, and not leave them out in the weather.

Me, personally, I remove the spool from the machine after use, baggie the
wire, then store it in a my rod oven.

LLoyd

Does non flux coated wire go bad?
 

It's a resistance, . . .errrrr. make that "conductance" thing.

Bob Swinney
"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
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stryped fired this volley in news:5c155cc8-f5f3-
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can I bring the wire back to life?

It's easy, Stryped.

Unroll all of it. Get some lightly oiled 0000 steel wool, and scrub off
every bit of corrosion and rust on the wire as you re-roll it.

When you're done, you'll have a nifty $500 roll of welding wire, and all
will be right with the world.

Or - just a suggestion - you could treat the welder and its supplies as
if they were tools, and not leave them out in the weather.

Me, personally, I remove the spool from the machine after use, baggie the
wire, then store it in a my rod oven.

LLoyd

Does non flux coated wire go bad?
 

On May 21, 1:54*pm, "Robert Swinney" wrote:
It's a resistance, *. . .errrrr. make that "conductance" thing.

Bob Swinney
"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in messagenews:Xns9D7F8D95D507Blloydspmindspringcom@2 16.168.3.70...
stryped fired this volley in news:5c155cc8-f5f3-
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can I bring the wire back to life?

It's easy, Stryped.

Unroll all of it. *Get some lightly oiled 0000 steel wool, and scrub off
every bit of corrosion and rust on the wire as you re-roll it.

When you're done, you'll have a nifty $500 roll of welding wire, and all
will be right with the world.

Or - just a suggestion - you could treat the welder and its supplies as
if they were tools, and not leave them out in the weather.

Me, personally, I remove the spool from the machine after use, baggie the
wire, then store it in a my rod oven.

LLoyd

I did not leave the welder or the wire out in the weather. It has
always been in the garage. But the garage I figured has high humidity
because the door is cracked most of the time.

What do you mean a 500 dollar role of welding wire?

Does non flux coated wire go bad?
 

What's that Lassie? You say that stryped fell down the old
rec.crafts.metalworking mine and will die if we don't mount a rescue
by Fri, 21 May 2010 10:40:34 -0700 (PDT):

I have got a small hobart welder. (MIG). For some reason I could not
get the machien to weld right, like it did not have enough power. I
put new wire on and it worked fine. But, several weeks later whne I
went to use the welder again, same thign happened. It has rained alot
here. If this is moisture, can I bring the wire back to life?

If it's not the wire rusting(is it copper plated?) then it might be
corrosion at the contact tip.
Try swapping out the copper tip next time it happens.

Or a bad ground.
--

Dan H.
northshore MA.

Does non flux coated wire go bad?
 

On May 21, 4:58*pm, stryped wrote:


I did not leave the welder or the wire out in the weather. It has
always been in the garage. But the garage I figured has high humidity
because the door is cracked most of the time.

What do you mean a 500 dollar role of welding wire?

Welding wire can oxidize. Sounds like you should unload the machine
and store the wire is a zip lock bag.

I think he means the cost of the wire including the labor. You could
make something to spool the wire off one spool and onto another. I
kludged up something to spool wire from a 30 lb roll on to 10 lb
spools that would work. I am going to have a go at removing the
oxidation from some silicon bronze wire that was thrown out because of
corrosion.

Dan

Does non flux coated wire go bad?
 

stryped fired this volley in news:bdfd3679-3189-483c-
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What do you mean a 500 dollar role of welding wire?


Ok... at your hourly rate, a $5.00 roll of wire.

Do you actually READ any posts, or just delete them and go on to the next
inane question?

LLoyd

Does non flux coated wire go bad?
 

On Fri, 21 May 2010 21:11:17 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

stryped fired this volley in news:bdfd3679-3189-483c-
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What do you mean a 500 dollar role of welding wire?


Ok... at your hourly rate, a $5.00 roll of wire.

Do you actually READ any posts, or just delete them and go on to the next
inane question?

LLoyd

Chuckle!


Mark Rand
RTFM