6010 Pad Beads

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1. frank

   November 19, 2013 at 2:45 PM

   I’m currently practicing for a CWB SMAW all position test (on 3/8″ plate with a 1/4″ backing strip and 1/2″ gap). I know the test calls for 1/8″ 7018 rods. My question is this….can you use this “pad the beads” exercise in all positions? Or would it be a waste of material? Any help, advice or tips/tricks you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
   Thanks

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   • John

     February 4, 2014 at 10:18 PM

     padding beads in all position is very good, and “cheep welding practice”….

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2. Paul Ingraham

   November 7, 2013 at 2:24 PM

   Jody, Thanks for your videos. I am a welding class student and have found these 6010 “pads” difficult since I have only one eye and frequently veer offline. Helmets with large windows have helped but lightened my wallet. Practicing these have helped transfer skills to Mig and are a benefit to that method.

   Where do I find that “hatchet” type slag hammer that you use?

   Keep them coming as your vids are helping get me through the class. Our instructor is a long-time stick welder so 6010 sticks are a big part of the class. Just finished 8 weeks of 7018 and learned a lot with that. We did open root with backing and filled with 6010 and filled with 7018. Real world stuff!

   Paul

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3. TamJeff

   November 5, 2013 at 8:32 PM

   I dug running 6010 in school and always went back to it every chance I got, like when others would have the TIG or MIG booths tied up. Because of that, I passed my open root pipe test, first try in 45 minutes, including prep. My welding instructor took out his little mirror on a stick, looked inside the pipe at the root and said, “What are you still doing in this class? You should be out making money for this.”

   6010 is underrated and someone proficient with the whip and pause can make some real proper looking dimes with it. A 6010 weld never looks out of place in every day structural situations either, where MIG has stolen the show for the most part. At any rate, if I were to build things here at home out of the typical materials used by most people in the private sector, I would certainly use this rod, or it’s buzz box equivalent.

   Our instructor used to fail otherwise perfect passes because of pick marks. To him, they may as well have been a pinhole and once you put pock marks and pound slag into them, it is difficult for a would be inspector/instructor to tell the difference at a glance, and will most likely err on the side of caution in that regard. There was more than one slag hammer with that side worn into a nub in our class.

   Thanks for posting a video on this subject. It was nice to see it again. It has me wanting to get back into stick welding.

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4. mark washburn

   November 5, 2013 at 4:34 PM

   HI Jody I am a retired pipefitter local # 25 rock island Il.CWI CWE I am now a welding instructor for the last 10 years at Black Hawk college and am enjoying every minute of it, as I know you do! We are building a brand new welding tech center here in Kewanee ILLinois I was wondering if you could help me with a list of things a great welding shop needs to have in it I would greatly appreciate your input! p.s want to buy tig fingers for my grad students for Christmas. I think 15 p.s you must have been a pipefitter also!

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