Newbie here!
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:51 pm
I'm a total newbie to the forum and have only owned a welder for about 3 months. It's an old Lincoln Tombstone AC. Original owner bought it, used it for a weekend to build a small utility trailer and put it in storage, where it sat for almost 25 years. I've been practicing like crazy, reading as much as I can find and watching as many on-line videos I can to learn how to use this durned thing. It came with a whole box of electrodes.............but these are the original rods the fellow bought when he bought the welder..................so they are old. These are 6013 rods, in 3/32" and 1/8". I've been asking questions about the process on another unrelated forum I'm on and have been told maybe I'd be better off buying some new rods. I'm not so sure. I ran almost 30 rods practicing today and got what I consider some pretty nice looking welds................on the horizontal, mind you.
Couldn't seem to get a decent weld going up or going down..........or going sideways on a vertical wall. Seems a shame to toss rods that are working if I do my part.
I was directed to this site by a member of the other forum. He said the videos here are extremely helpful, so I just signed up and will start watching. I have no need to become a welding expert but would like to at least become reasonably proficient when I flip the switch and put a rod in the handle.
Anyway, that's who I am and where I'm headed..................just hope I get there.![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
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I was directed to this site by a member of the other forum. He said the videos here are extremely helpful, so I just signed up and will start watching. I have no need to become a welding expert but would like to at least become reasonably proficient when I flip the switch and put a rod in the handle.
Anyway, that's who I am and where I'm headed..................just hope I get there.
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)