Does anyone have any experience with hardfacing mig? I resurface this skid steer bucket half a dozen times a year, it get used to scoop potatoes off a dirty concrete floor so the blade just disappears. In the past I’ve used SMAW but I do enough of it I thought Mig would be faster. I picked up a roll of this ArmourWear from my LWS, but I can’t find any info or spec on how to run it, there’s no info on Hobarts page. I did find it listed on an older product list from Hobart, but no recommended settings, aside from DCEN which most hardfacing is done.
It does run, but it’s a really rough globular spattery weld. I’ve spent all morning with it and settled on 400 ipm and 23 volts, and it runs kinda sorta okish now. But I’m burning up tips like crazy, something like 10-12 already. It’s starting to get really frustrated I’ve even tried 0.45 tips with were worse.
Im getting porosity, which I don’t like but kinda expected as I’ve resurfaced this blade 5 times now, it gets dragged over dirty concrete, smashed juicy potatoes etc..
I feel like throwing this stuff as far away as i can and going back to stick, but this roll was pretty darn expensive [emoji51].
Any help would be much appreciated!
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