[aland]

Ok, I'm sure that was way overkill, but how many times in your life do you get to say you welded your nuts with super missionweld ?

Learned a couple interesting pieces of information. I saw that Chrome nuts are twice the price of Stainless. That makes sense as Chrome Moly is much more durable, I just hadn't thought about it like that.

The Harris Space MissionWeld is much easier to stop/start/restart than 7018, and flows pretty nice, I would say a similar puddle for me.

I used an IR Thermometer I got recently to test the temp on the weld and metal, and about 10-20 seconds after welding the weld/nut/metal was around 160F-190F degrees, but the bolt I screwed into the nut while I welded was about 250F-300F degrees.

Interesting that so much heat travels through the nut/steel to the bolt but those are cooler.

That Space MissleWeld starts really easy, I was using 88 amps on a 3/32" electrode with about 50% Arc Force. Damn it burns quick on those little rods, they're only like 8" long. The 1/8" rods are the standard 14".

I can cross that off my bucket list now...

Alan

[Owr]

309 stick is probably the best and you can get away with 308 as well. Welded lots of mild steel to ss with 308 and in wet conditions the weld never rusted, there probably ain`t that much carbon in the weld itself.