(crackling welding sound)
- Hi folks. Welcome to Weld.com
I have a new machine in.
It's a Everlast PowerArc 161STH.
Today I want to run some stick.
I want to run 60/10 and an open,
okay I'll say open
outside corners.
Kind of poor man's bevel.
I have a whisper of gap in this.
My attempt is to see how the stick side runs.
I just want to run a route pass in here.
Try to achieve 100% penetration on the backside.
And cover it with one pass of 332nd 7018.
I'm looking for arc features.
I'm looking to see how the machine is going to react
and run.
How I can dig and what I feel with the electrode.
So, we're going to do our first run here on 1/8 inch
60/10 on an outside corner joint.
(crackling welding sound)
Right now I'm set to the TIG mode 100 amps.
Change that over to stick.
I like 85 amps for this particular application.
This machine has the capability of 6010
or taking it off for all other electrodes.
We also have a hot start, an arc force,
I'm not going to play with any of that right now.
All right that was our first run.
We ran a route pass in an outside corner joint.
It had just a little bit of gap in it.
And we got what we wanted to get here
as far as 100% penetration.
I've run a lot of these little machines.
These little inverter machines.
And they for whatever reason didn't like to run 60/10.
I personally love running 6010, 6011 cellulose rods
for tacking, getting penetration,
doing fit ups.
So I'm pretty impressed.
I like the fact that this is getting through on the backside
and I can control it.
So I want to clean this bead and run one more pass
with 7018.
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I have the top of this cleaned off sufficiently.
I just hand wire brushed it
and hit it with the chipping hammer
and gonna run some 332 7018.
I'm going to leave it at 85 amps.
All I did was take it off of the 6010 mode.
One more pass we should be done.
(crackling welding noise)
These are the first rod that I've run on this machine
and I'm pretty impressed with the responsiveness here.
Simple set up.
We just did kind of a test of an outside corner joint.
Got a 100% route pen.
Cleaned it off and ran a 70/18 that filled in nicely.
I could go back and touch that
and finish it off.
Wire wheel it and be done with it.
Couple more things I want to show here.
I noticed an anti-stick feature on here
and I'm curious to show that and see what it does.
In reading. I believe it will ...
If the rod sticks, the machine detects it
and it defaults to a way lower amperage.
So that the rod doesn't sit there and burn up. Okay?
A couple of nice things about that we can save the rod.
And it probably saves on equipment as well.
So let's a run a little experiment and see what we come up
with on that.
I'm going to stick an electrode.
The anti-stick feature is off right now.
So I'm going to show what normally happens
or what should happen.
Is this thing just decomposes and smokes.
Just stuck an electrode because I'm good at it.
And the feature was not on.
So what happens was the resistance just built up
in the electrode
and we went into meltdown.
And that's to demonstrate what would happen
in a normal condition.
Now we have this feature turned on.
I'm going to stick another electrode,
and by the way I'm having kind of a hard time
sticking these electrodes.
This thing, I can cram one,
cram that 6010 in there pretty good
and it feels like it doesn't want to go out.
So I want to get my electrode sticking game on point here.
The features on what should happen is as the electrode
stuck. The machines senses it and it defaults
back to a lower amperage.
I started this electrode
and I actually buried it in the material.
And I had a hard time getting it stuck
with testament of the machine.
But still now that we're stuck,
I'm sitting here for a long time.
I can't see the face of the machine
but I'm sure it's defaulted down to a low amp.
By this time this things should have been roasting down
and if not doing anything.
I'd be curious enough to take my glove off
and touch the rod.
Oh gee whiz, I could probably do it barehanded.
(ambient shop sounds)
Warm to the touch.
I have my bare hand on here.
So, (clears throat) I don't know this is not something
that we would do all the time.
But things happen.
Think about walking away from your machine
with an electrode in there.
And something moved and it stuck to a grounded material
and you came back.
That's happened in our shop numerous times.
So again,
(welding crackle)
(loud machine sound)
It just defaults to a low amperage
and it's not smoking.
You get to reuse this electrode.
This is a 161STH capable of 160 amps.
So let's crank it up all the way
and see what happens.
I've got a 3/16 7018.
Ha, ha, ha.
Let's turn it up all the way.
(crackling welding noise)
And see what happens.
We'll run this bad boy in here.
Wow, we put a big old chunk or rod in there
and cranked it up to 160 amps.
And then oh, it labored a little but
but gee whiz I'm thinking projects
with 8532, 7014, 6013, 6010.
The stick side of this is pretty impressive.
And again it has that feature in there of anti-stick.
I think that's kind of cool.
So, that's the Everlast 161STH.
Hope you enjoyed this.
One other thing.
You see me using these all the time.
Armor Tool Automatic 10cc.
It doesn't matter
I can clamp on to a piece of quarter inch material.
I can come over here and clamp onto this thick of material
or something that's an inch or so.
It doesn't matter the thickness.
Once the pressure is set,
it always has the same pressure to it.
Whoever came out with these needs a raise.
This is a cool tool.
Anyway, I hope you found this educational
and entertaining.
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