Hi Jody I’ve been watching your website for years and like your stuff very much.
I’ve been welding with mig since the Miller 100s came out in the early 1980s. In all those years I hardly ever have run mig up hill. I’m a fleet mechanic and I have to live with my failures. Machines seem to never go away! I’m always repairing factory failures. You mentioned in this that down hill produces less penetration.
Do you suppose I’m just lucky or maybe as I’ve often thought, as this has come up before, that most fabricated assemblies are just inherently stronger than they need to be. Fabulous penetration isn’t always as necessary as we believe. Nearly always when I make one of these repairs I add things to stiffen and brace the failure. Had the machine been created that way at the start I wouldn’t have to fix it in the first place.
With stick, yeah I’m always going up hill.
April 16, 2019 at 10:22 AM
Hi Jody I’ve been watching your website for years and like your stuff very much.
I’ve been welding with mig since the Miller 100s came out in the early 1980s. In all those years I hardly ever have run mig up hill. I’m a fleet mechanic and I have to live with my failures. Machines seem to never go away! I’m always repairing factory failures. You mentioned in this that down hill produces less penetration.
Do you suppose I’m just lucky or maybe as I’ve often thought, as this has come up before, that most fabricated assemblies are just inherently stronger than they need to be. Fabulous penetration isn’t always as necessary as we believe. Nearly always when I make one of these repairs I add things to stiffen and brace the failure. Had the machine been created that way at the start I wouldn’t have to fix it in the first place.
With stick, yeah I’m always going up hill.