Two different metals are exhibiting the same issue. Start a weld and form a puddle and once the puddle is formed the steel just vaporizes and creates a blackened electrode and leaves a brown soot on the metal. The resultant weld looks like volcanic rock embedded into the metal. I shut it down when i...

Oil patch nuff said. I bet the first welder on the rigs must have been lincoln and like I hear almost everyday "we've always done it that way"