Ordered me a little welder

[Wyvern]

I almost bought a rod drier at one point, but I decided against it because the thing was massive

Plus very expensive to run.

 

[robe]

Where do you keep your rod when your not using it?

Sounds dumb but put a hand full of rod in a taster oven at 125 for an hour or two before you start welding pull the rod out as you need it. The flux is hydroscopic and will pull moisture from the air. Its also much easier to start hot rod.

Keep the rod vertical or have a slight pull angle, strike like a match, keep the arc tight and move fairly quick with small circular motions.

Rod ovens are a big deal for those doing inspected welds like on cranes and such. The rods need to be kept in a dry environment at a minimum. Don't leave them in a cold humid garage or they won't work well at all. 7018 are very susceptible to humidity.

 

[Whitewill1412]

I haven't been messing with my bikes at all lately. Too many hobbies.
A few days ago I made my first project using a welder. It's a stand for a work light to use for welding. It's a nice light, but the fold out leg stand thing on it broke off making it kinda useless. So I made this beautiful contraption to hold it up and it works too.

 

[DieselTech]

Get you a small metal filing cabinet & wire a 20watt incandescent bulb on the inside. Instant rod oven.

 

[robe]

I haven't been messing with my bikes at all lately. Too many hobbies.
A few days ago I made my first project using a welder. It's a stand for a work light to use for welding. It's a nice light, but the fold out leg stand thing on it broke off making it kinda useless. So I made this beautiful contraption to hold it up and it works too.

Good for you. Welding up a storm!

 

[DAMIEN1307]

Get you a small metal filing cabinet & wire a 20watt incandescent bulb on the inside. Instant rod oven.

Naaah...Just get one of these babies from 1963...Comes complete with that little fat porker kid in the commercial to eat all the sweets...lol...Just give me the address, I should get there before the oven arrives...lol...lol.

 

[DieselTech]

Naaah...Just get one of these babies from 1963...Comes complete with that little fat porker kid in the commercial to eat all the sweets...lol...Just give me the address, I should get there before the oven arrives...lol...lol.

I got 2 of them in the basement.

 

[robe]

I got 2 of them in the basement.

When you are jones'n for some sweets? Cook up a couple cookies for tea time.

 

[Chainlube]

I got 2 of them in the basement.

With the original owners.

 

[Whitewill1412]

Update. Amazon just delivered one of my birthday presents today. It's an Arccaptain mig130. Wow wow wow. I am just running rods with it so far and it is amazingly better than the cheap little temu welder I started with. It strikes an arc with 6013 first try every time. 7018 is a little harder to start, but runs nice. The other machine wouldn't even run a 7018. It also runs the 6011 which the other machine would just catch on fire. I am blown away by this thing and I haven't even tried the mig yet. It is flux core mig so I don't need any gad. It came with a spool of 030 wire. It can also do lift tig, but didn't come with the torch. Tig is far from my ability right now anyway.