welcome to Welkom I want to run a new product here I'm gonna try some blue demon 308 L FCO
gasless flux core wire when I was mocking this up I read the I read his technical specs and
I'm running off at eSAB rebel 235 and I went through a bunch of different settings and what
I noticed was this is to me it's a little hard I guess I'm stuck on the the carbon steel wire and
the DCE end and how you can get that good tight sizzle but this one's a little bit different I'm
running dcep I'm gonna do a volt range of 28 and I'm doing 465 on my wire feed speed oh three five
okay so what I'm noticing while I'm doing this is and it's kind of weird it's it's like there's
always a big ball on the end of the wire okay and I'm thinking wow that's that's strange I want to
get rid of it I'm not able to get rid of it I went through a bunch of different settings it's
always there I turn this thing way down on the low end and you can do some some I want to say
23 and a half 24 volts and lower that wire feed speed where you get a lower amperage
you can make a smaller weld I want to do 10 gauge fill it well and then I want to do a quarter-inch
fill it weld and I'm noticing that to me I get more of an acceptable appearance by go
ahead and running it hot and just going faster you know even on the thinner material so I want
to experiment a little bit I already see some benefits to this you know stainless you know
we're running different gases with stainless you can well it was C 25 you'll get a little bit of
a gray well I think we've did a video on that when we did it in comparison with a tried blend
of gas with the helium and but you know if you can do this without gas if I was if I was doing
some stuff around the house and I had a quick repair or if I had a small fab job and I had
y're and I didn't want to go through the expensive gas yeah I'm definitely
grabbing this stuff right here so let me get some sleeves on I'll be right back
with wires all for a 3/4 to 1 inch thick out
I'm gonna let this one cool I want to go over here to this sticker material
this quarter-inch I did do a test weld on it
I'm gonna experiment do something here I'm gonna go into this corner with a push
pretty good push angle and then I'm gonna leave it set for the camera guy over here
and I'm going to do a pretty good pull when I get back to about an inch or so then I'm just
gonna rotate the gun and see if I can't tie into those just just to see how it's going to react
I noticed a couple of things here I really expected the ball on the end of the wire is
always there what I really expected to happen is this extreme push angle that I used I really
thought I'd get a lot of babies and buckshot that came out on the material it didn't and and then
I turned around and I dragged this in here at a pretty good angle same thing it looked like
it was spattering a lot but it really it's not on the material so I need to get with a
manufacturer and have a little conversation I need to learn how to run their product better
I'm a nice first time for me to run it but I I think this is kind of cool really it just it's
one of those things that just kind of looks weird got to get got to get used to it we did a video
while back when we compared to flux core wires a Lincoln in a Harbor Freight and you know they
have some unique characteristics and certainly this one does too but again you know think beyond
let's think the advantages okay we're not using any gas you know this is pretty quick I'm gonna
go I'm gonna go cool this off I'm curious to know what these look like I think I may have
missed that fill it weld over on one part of it you know again this is it's a wire feed process
but it has flux around it so you know if in order for me to really concentrate on on the
weld pool itself you know I'd equate this to stick because it's got the slag all around it
so again I'm gonna cool this off I'll do some chipping and buffing I probably want to get
some b-roll of some color if it's there before I do any wire wheel work so I'll be right back
i cooled this one off I didn't do anything to this one here cooled off on its own by the way
I was using this block back here not as a heat sink or anything just to study the material in
case us case I bumped the wire and it didn't get going anyway on this particular weld has
a decent profile I probably over weld it and I noticed that I'm I I kind of missed a little
bit to the downside I guess I was mesmerised by that ball thing going off there on the end of the
wire that's still to me I haven't I haven't made continuous welds with that going on so and again
first time for me to run this and and I want to get more technical specs and some advice on
everything but I see some real definite advantages to doing this for quick work on structural here's
what I do notice and here's what I like even though this thing sounds like it's spattering
and it's out of control and all that and again I said I'd went through a lot of different settings
back here did all kind of ran it still had that strange effect where that ball was on the end
of the wire and I think the camera guy got it pretty well but you know again I missed this a
little bit to the downside it's still in there I've got some slag showing where I didn't wire
buff it hard I'll get over here on this weld I have a couple of these hard spatters I know that
happened when I tacked it I don't have any of them in the weld I don't have any of these big
old spatter things sitting on top of the plate that are hard to chip off the ones that were
on there we're fairly small and I knocked them off with the with the chipping hammer with very
little effort okay my big ones that I can't get off of here or when I tack the material on here
now can you take them off yeah I could take those off of the die grinder or thin bladed
grinder and just kind of washing back a little bit the profile of this weld on the quarter inch
material is actually pretty sweet so you know I think it's a great product I just need to learn
it learn to run it better correctly spend some time with it but I see some definite advantages
again Blue Demon 308 el FCO gasless flux core wire and this rascal runs on dcep dcep and I also ran
this on the flux core program on the rebel 235 okay so you know I learned a little bit here
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