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Gotta question for you true fabricators out there.
How many of you, when you're runnin' flux core wire,
you get ready to do multiple joint configurations
and positions and directions of travel,
do you go back and adjust your machine?
Personally, when I'm runnin' horizontal and flat,
I crank it up pretty high, run hot.
I turn it down if I'm gettin' ready
to do an uphill run on somethin'.
Bein' in a groove or fillet weld.
And then how 'bout thin material?
This is 11 gauge, I did a mock-up run.
I'm playin' around with this wire over here.
And I ran it down pretty low.
I think I could run it even lower yet,
but this is 11 gauge material.
It's right around an eight of an inch,
and I threw an 045 flux core fillet weld in it.
Again, I'm thinkin' here, I'm lookin' at some drawings.
And I was thinkin' about just, you know,
not changin' settings, and kinda fly through this stuff
with some speed and quality.
Keep the right size, keep the spatter down and everything.
So, I wanna experiment with this wire, just run.
I wanna go down low on this 11 gauge.
And then I wanna mock-up this run
where I do a horizontal fillet, just lap,
come up into here, run part of this.
Not change settings, and just go from horizontal
and go uphill and see what happens.
See if we can keep the same acceptable size of weld
and rock on, we'll see what happens.
Good experiment for me.
Hope you enjoy it.
(fire crackling)
Okay, I ran this first weld.
I forgot to glance over at the machine
and read the ampers.
But I'm thinkin' it was down around 200.
I don't think it was much higher than that.
But I ran it at 20.5 volts.
300 inches a minute on wire-feed speed.
I am running off of a Esab 285.
And I'm runnin' off the flux core setting on this machine.
045 wire on 11 gauge, that's the important part.
I really kinda like the first part of this.
It's a little smaller, apparently I slowed down.
My bead got progressively wider by a little bit.
I have a couple of specks of spatter, not bad.
But I really like the start of this bead.
I like the profile of it.
That ran pretty smooth and pretty quick.
I think, and you know, again,
this is the first time for me to run this.
I'm kinda playin' around with it and learnin' myself.
So, so far, I'm seein' that it runs down on the low end.
How far low, I don't know yet.
I could mock up some more of these pieces.
So now, I wanna go into some 5/16 plate
and do a horizontal fillet, couple of 'em actually.
And then I want to do this t-joint,
not change settings, but just take off
and do the horizontal fillet part,
and just go uphill with it and see what happens
without changing settings.
I do believe I wanna run about 25.5 volts.
And I wanna run about 425, 430 inches a minute
on the wire-feed speed there.
(fire crackling)
(metal clanking)
(fire crackling)
(metal clanking)
Camera guy wants me to talk while I chip my slag.
I kinda butchered this part of the lap weld over here.
I don't like the toe of my weld.
I do like my fillet.
I'm really interested in what this fillet looks like
because, while I was standin' over the top of this thing,
it was like diggin' down in here.
I need to get some light on this guy here.
Pretty nice profile of fillet weld in there.
(metal clanking)
I did the same thing over here.
Pretty much the same settings.
Hey, here's a cool little product for you.
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I'm gonna get under the toe of my weld under here,
on the horizontal part that I did for the fillet.
I'm a little peaked in here, on my vertical up.
But I didn't change settings.
And I definitely think that I could do a little better
by actually going up in a half of a volt,
leave the wire where it's at.
435, we're above 200 somethin' amps.
Probably around 225 or so.
25.5, I think 26 might be the ticket.
Anyway, we've got a mock-up run over here
that I kinda set the machine with.
I actually thought I could get away with it.
I like this profile here, it's very acceptable.
I may have bumped that wire-feed speed
up too high on this side.
Again, hey, we ran on some real thin stuff.
045, not 035, 045 flux core wire.
We ran it down low, ran some thin stuff.
Fairly small weld, we could probably go faster.
Again, I haven't played with the extreme limits here.
This is the first time for me to run this.
I think it's a very cool wire, very versatile.
To be able to run small gauge material,
or 11 gauge, 3/16, leave the same settings,
and then just go ahead and go uphill.
Now without changing voltages and all that stuff.
So, I know there's some other cool demonstrations,
and some other things that I could figure out with this.
I wanna run it in some groove work,
go uphill, run some multiple stringers.
Possibly run it overhead as well.
I learned a little bit here,
I'm hopin' you did too.
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You sure you want me to film you like this?
- Got one out of place?
- [Cameraman] You've got more than one outta place.
- Well, so do you, you're behind the camera.
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