What is the arc force setting on new inverter welders? What is Dig? What is arc control on an older Miller syncrowave 250? Guess what? These differently named control knobs are the same thing. No matter what the name, it is a setting that allows you to adjust the arc to a soft smooth...
6011 welding rods are very much like 6010 rods. The 6011 rod was designed with some stabilizers in the flux to allow welding on AC without the arc snuffing out. 6011 rods will run on AC , DC straight , or DC Reverse ( also called DC positive and DC neg) Whereas 6010 rods...
Tig inverters are amazing. A tig welding machine the size of a small lunchbox that can tig weld and stick weld up to 140 amps? That’s crazy. And Since 140 amps is plenty of power to burn a 1/8″ 7018, there are very few things that can’t be welded with one of these little...
As of Feb 2012, the Boy Scouts of America have a new merit badge for welding. … and that is a good thing. Welding is something that not just everybody gets exposed to. Case in point… I had never welded for even a minute when I started welding school at 19. Never seen it...
This week’s vid is on stick welding lap joints. For some of the joints, I am using an old lincoln tombstone buzz box welder. I call it old, but it’s only around 20 years young. But it has been through a flood where it stayed completely underwater for quite a while. When things dried...
Arc welding overhead with 7018 can reign down slag and fireballs in the most unfortunate places. Especially when you are just learning. I was young and dumb when I was learning to weld so I got lots of scars on my arms and other places while I was figuring out how to put the...
It used to be that the cheapest way to get started tig welding was to get a stick welder, an air cooled torch with a valve, a tank of argon and regulator and boom …off to the races. not anymore. the cheapest way to dip your toe in the water these days is with...
Is there a difference in 7018 welding rods? Oh yes! Some rods seem to fingernail and experience arc blow more than others and some seem to run smooth with easy slag removal. I talked with a friend a few days ago and he happened to mention using some Lincoln Excalibur 7018 welding rods. He...
Stick Welding is considered harder than Mig welding mainly because mig welding eliminates the need to constantly feed the electrode to maintain a constant arc length. Beginner stick welders almost always use too long an arc. That stick electrode is always getting shorter and that means the arc is always getting longer… unless you...
