Welding - Innershield flux core wire

Work the weld. Stop, Pause, Melt, Fuse that metal. Dont get caught up proper settings, conditions, sparking too much, wire sticking, conditions change all the time, welding in the afternoon or at night, metals. Sew that metal. Too Rusty means more oxygen so, it'll burn hotter, pause a second, let it cool & keep welding. I been using a stick welder, it throws a Big piece of bird ****, Fast & Hot!

And Jump around in small incriments to prevent warpage no matter the gauge.

Everything is possible!

 

Yup

 

The shop where I work we also build oilfield equipt. We use 0.45 metal core with gas everthing we build is a 1/4'' and bigger. At home I have a 140 hobart I run .030 fluxcore I just turn up the amps and slow down the wire speed and it works fine

 

Maybe my post wasn't worded very clearly. That's what we call fluxcored wire. There are also other flux cored wires ( Lincolns NR311 is one) that have a flux core as well but do not require the shielding gas. These are what we call innershield wires as the flux is a true innershield.

 

Having done a bit of welding on navy ships, I must say I don't agree with that.

 

I can melt holes in 1/8 with my 110 welder. It does excellent on 1/8" frames. I bet these guys not getting penetration arenpt familiar with welding in the first place. I took 4 years of welding school and have been welding since 12. We had a full machine shop in our ba*****t. My first weld job, I knew nothing about penetration. I layed a real nice looking bead ( I thought) making a shelf bracket. My Stepdad took a hammer and smacked the bracket once and it fell apart. This was with Oxy/ Acc. He then showed me the basics on Penetration. I excelled in my welding from there. I would ace out on every welding test in school. I use a Lincoln 175 now and that definately has way more balls than the 110 but for 1/8" the 110 works great!! Again, I think its technique over amperage if you cant get the wire to meld into the parent metal.

 

Stacked consecutive tacks do not cons***ute any weld except tack welds.

This " row of dimes" Nomenclature is thrown pretty fast and loose at best around here.

So how many dimes per inch are we talking about ? Surely there's a vast difference in 3 dimes per inch " row of dimes " or 10 dimes per inch " row of dimes " vs a 30 dimes per inch "row of dimes" or 100 dimes per inch "row of dimes"