Picked up a nice little welding rod oven on CL

[Gary Fowler]

Oven is not up to the correct temperature!
Give me some time to get a passport. Then let me know when it's a good time for you, for me to come up and get those welding lessons.

You have several boxes of opened iron powder electrodes (7018?) that should be in the oven also. Storage temps can be 250F-275F for low hydrogen rods but even 150f will keep them from gathering moisture.

 

[Arc weld]

I meant Shield Arc could give the welding lesson but the mistake I was referring to wasn't involving the oven. Oven's do make 7018 burn nicer and give slightly better mechanical properties but aren't really required unless doing code work. Shield Arc does excellent work but I don't think it's to a specific code(s) other than to satisfy him it's done right. Here's a hint, it has to do with what he bought his Trailblazer 55 for.

 

[Shield Arc]

You have several boxes of opened iron powder electrodes (7018?) that should be in the oven also. Storage temps can be 250F-275F for low hydrogen rods but even 150f will keep them from gathering moisture.

Back in my falsework building days, I can't tell how many times I had to pour rain water out of a can of 7018. Because some carpenter type left the lid to the gang box open.

Here's a hint, it has to do with what he bought his Trailblazer 55 for.

OK, now I'm lost.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Back in my falsework building days, I can't tell how many times I had to pour rain water out of a can of 7018. Because some carpenter type left the lid to the gang box open.:

I guess I am more of a stickler for rod storage for structural welders. On our jobs, the structural guys used rods from the same storage as pipe welders, so we (my QC inspectors & welding supervisors) made it mandatory to use rod caddies for all welders and anyone found with the can not plugged up was reprimanded. Everyone had to put all rods back in hot box at night or else plug in their 10# caddies. Caddies were checked out each morning by number so we knew who the culprit was when it didn't come back in. The second warning got the welder 3 days off without pay and the 3rd warning got him fired. We threw away any rods left out rather than take a chance on those rods getting into a 100% xray weld and causing porosity. Only 6010 rods were allowed to be keep in gang boxes and those were discarded if they were left out long enough to form a white powder on them. Part of the QC program was to inspect gang boxes and confiscate any old rods for disposal.

I wish I had some of them now as there would be nothing wrong with using them on the farm especially after heating them up to 275F.

 

[Shield Arc]

When building false work everything was to be to AWS code. But normally that was only in the spec book, and at the bottom of the blue prints. Now anything that was a permanent structure, that's a different story. That's when the welding inspectors would come out of the job site office trailers.

 

[Arc weld]

It has something to do with filler metal that you preferred... Think of the Pepsi Challenge.:confused3: