I was working for a lawnmower mfg. We had to use electric grinders :cry: with wire cup brushes to "clean" up the welds. Was cleaning in a corner, cup brush kicked back and proceeded to go up the side of my face,grinder fell on the ground and was bouncing around all over the place before I ...

Thanks for the welcome. The stick out suggestion was a big help. Also, information to anyone who may have the same issue, I adjusted the factory setting on the burnback, turned it down to almost no burnback and ran almost a 10 hour shift with 1 tip. Hope that helps anyone in the future!!

Steve

I am in the middle of a large stainless steel project. Here are the parameters:

16 gauge 304
all fillet welds using pulse mode on a Fronius machine
Running fairly hot 22.8v using .035 308 wire

Here's the problem, I seem to going through a lot of tips.
Any suggestions??