Welding Question

[wroughtn_harv]

If your machine is DC, put it on DC+ and get after it, three thirty two will cook just fine. You can even do one eighth if you're working thin metal.

One of my dirty tricks just because I'm me is exchanging 6011 rod with my 5P+ when a fella's welding with an AC machine. It usually takes about three to four attempts to get a puddle going and seven times that amount of dirty words for them to figure out 5P+ won't weld AC.

I'll run about seventy amps DC+ with eighth inch rod when welding pipe fence that's galvanized whether it's schedule forty or schedule twenty I've even ran sixteen gauge with that setting but when I do I'm moving so fast it's like time travel. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif It's one of those things where if you're looking for a puddle you've already got a hole the size of a silver dollar to fill. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

One of the things I find intriguing about welding is it appears to me most people run their rod too hot. Yet.......when someone picks up my stinger and finishes a weld for me they'll invariably ask how I am able to work with it that hot. Go figure. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[lmiller]

It's an inverter so I'll give the 5P+ a shot. I remember from the last time I worked with a stick that as I got better I could drop the setting for the same quality. Hope that works this time too /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[kuby]

I have a 110 mig and an old 200 amp AC stick. Like others have said the mig falls short on the farm equipment and the old AC takes a little longer to learn but have began useing the 7018 3/32 ac at a setting of 130 amp and it welds with a nice strong bead. I use it for front end loader repairs and making buckets and Snowmobile lifts and love it.