[Charles_Karl]

20 years ago I worked at Red Dog mine doing maintenance welding/fabrication during a mill shut down. I worked with a pipefitter who gave me some advice that vastly improved my welding,...he commented on vertical uphill, starts, and the way I hold the stinger. This is what he had to offer:
1. Hold the rod like a pool cue with your opposite hand and direct the rod with that hand.
2. Ease the rod into the iron and wait for the arc,...do not tap on the steel with the rod to force an arc.
3. If you stop a weld and have rod left over,...wipe the flux from the end of the rod with your glove to expose the metal once again, then ease it back to the iron.
4. When whipping the rod from side to side,...'Get Lazy' with your motion,...stop at each side,..then ease back across.

hope this helps someone the way it helped me,..

[AKweldshop]

"Get Lazy"

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