Thanks for looking into this for me. As you found...CTWD is important.

One more thing, be careful when terminating your arc. Snapping out too quickly leaves that cluster of porosity and the deep crater, both of which can be a problem if you are on a welding job for a customer or of someone's life depends on the weld. When you need to stop, carry a slightly longer arc ...

Stick welding body panels? That should be a good test of your welding abilities.

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the dice would be a nice challenge!
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I believe the challenge will come when trying to roll those dice....and.....I would love to see the table that they will get rolled on.

Plus now that you have a hitch on your Chevy, every time you look in the rearview mirror you'll find a Ford trying to catch a ride home after a breakdown. I used to happen to me all the time, it's a curse. Len LOL :lol: That happened to me recently.... the curse of having a car trailer. I called it...

Hi John, Thanks, It’s been great getting all the feedback. I am using 90/10 gas and looked up the settings on Lincoln & Miller’s welding calculators. Miller’s showed .035 - 400-420wps - 24-25v. - 98/2 gas Lincoln’s showed .035 - 390wps - 25v. - 90/10 gas my CTWD is 3/4 inch. So I understand now...

Ive heard from others as well who own the Everlast Powermig that they ran the flux wire fine right out of the box. Thanks The smooth rollers work fine with the shorter whips. At my old place of employment they used really long whips and the Miller wire feeders had two drive rollers, they used one k...

The picture that you posted shows a 4mm fillet weld on the "other" side of the joint...opposite side than the arrow is pointing to.

Nice John, and with the metal casters you won't fight a grounding issue. Those will come in handy for sure... I'm going to tack those casters to the top, and roll a big piece of pipe while I weld it. Ah...OK, I was going to suggest adding a piece of 3/4" roll bar to the center of the top of th...

Thats good info JW. Any special storage container I can buy for the wire? I bought a 10-pound roll and I know that will last me years. I mentioned storage per AWS D1.8 welding code and the limitations...this is not for porosity perse', but to limit hydrogen content through absorption from the atmos...

I was told that the weld will contaminate the SS and there will be cracks along the new welds in no time. Another part of the problem with this is that the SS and mild steel have two different expansion rate coefficients.One material expands with temperature at a different rate than the other which...

I was going to mention the self-shield SS FCAW wire, but I stopped to read the thread first...LOL(it was already suggested)
Post back when you get it welded up and let us know how things turned out.

re shelf life of FCAW wire: Yes, depending on how the wire is stored...it can pick up moisture over time and create a mystery porosity problem that rears it's ugly head without any other thing changing and will make you scratch your head trying to figure out what went wrong. This includes self-shiel...

If you are trying to estimate the amount of wire required from the wire mfg's data sheets and deposition rates, keep in mind that actual deposited material is less than raw material used...with FCAW it's around 85-87%. Part of the weight is flux that is burned, part is turned into slag, part of it i...

One more thing, be careful when terminating your arc. Snapping out too quickly leaves that cluster of porosity and the deep crater, both of which can be a problem if you are on a welding job for a customer or of someone's life depends on the weld. When you need to stop, carry a slightly longer arc f...

Aside of the polarity issues, Just briefly glancing at the pics, it seems that you are rushing the puddle along(travelling too fast for the machine setting). Get your puddle started and travel along only as quickly as the puddle builds behind the rod. Try to maintain the same size puddle as you go.....

bigworm40 wrote:Why can I weld like a champ uphill fcaw-g but not mig?

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Hi, I am starting to use Axial Spray transfer and have a couple questions that hopefully the good folks here can shed some light on. I am using a PowerMig 256 with .035 wire and 90/10 gas with 35-40CFH. When I look up the settings on Lincoln and Millers apps they point @ 400wfs and 25volts. In orde...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2429/4064433967_37d3032654.jpg I am comforted by the fact that they took time to grind the mill scale off of the materials before attempting to .....uh..."weld" it, otherwise the filler wire would have not even stuck to the material. What I'm scared of is th...

the two short stringers, that is where I filled in two low spots. As an inspector...I realize that these things happen...you realize that you have a low spot and you fill it in. Good Job!...now before you call me over to inspect the cap, take care of the extra reinforcement(any high places more tha...

AK...thanks for sharing the pics.

I'm having trouble with this hardfacing stuff and was wondering if anyone might give me a little help. I'm using Lincoln Electric Wearshield 60 rods and no matter how high I turn the amps the bead just sits on top of the build up and won't spread out. Plus when I turn it as high as the welder will ...

I agree with Mike...however after placing one weld you can stop short of the tack, grind the tack thin, and also the crater where you stopped, start welding in the crater, and go backwards briefly, just as the puddle forms, and then progress in the regular travel direction, run right over the tack t...

Superiorwelding wrote:I will give it a shot if I can get some free time today but I have 90/10 gas.
-Jonathan

Actually I used the numbers given from Lincoln where they used 90/10. I assumed the 5% wouldn't throw me out of the essential variable tolerances given D1.1

Formatted the voltage column to 1 decimal place vs 2