5 Tips and Tricks to Improve Flux Core Welding
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2024
- I've said it before but this video I go into more detail on why you DON'T need the nozzle when flux core welding.
Tips and Tricks to making your Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) or gasless MIG and MIG welds looking AWESOME!
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1- Remove the Nozzle 0:07
2- Helmet 1:31
3- Settings 2:15
4- Keep It Simple 3:30
5- Nozzle Gel 3:58
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Happy Welding with out the spatter!
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Thanks for the tips - Chris
Any time!
Put a heavy duty rubber band over the voltage and speed knob that way all you have to adjust is one
I'll have to try that!
Love how you break it down so easy
Right on, thanks!
I did a thing on welding without a nozzle in my tips and tricks. Try to cover the threads using an old diffuser insulator. Or get a piece that covers it like you showed, you don't have to but... I save money in brass diffusers this way not just the gas hole. The threads get ruined fast if you arc them off your product, just setting it down can bump the trigger or still have some amps in it to arc im sure you've seen it.
I've made a few mistakes. Imo that's one I don't forget when you need it on a holiday weekend and the stores are closed.😅
Realize this is an old video but my experience is, since I use a small inverter type multi-process machine, it comes with a small gun thus a small nozzle which is hardly bigger than the contact tip assembly, so removing the nozzle has no practical value except for protecting the threads and gas ports from spatter, as well as from short-circuiting the tip by accident. Those plastic tip covers are not available here anyway and from the looks of it, same size as the nozzle anyway for my gun size. As for helmets, my eyes are bad already, including night and colour-blindness so I need a hood that goes really low on shade levels. Finally, I've found that I am forced to do left-handed drag mig style for best visuals even though I am right handed. Crazy but I gotta do what I gotta do.
I tried flux core for the first time a few days back it's weird first time around...dragging, no shroud, .if the slag came off like stick does I'd probably use it more .
When you get into thicker material or higher amperage it does peel off, almost like stick does!
Fluxcore flux will fall right of if it’s shielded proper with argon mix gas
Is that a Miller Digital Infinity? How do you like it?
It is, I actually have the elite as well. I like the infinity better. It's slightly bigger. If you can find one with the 2.0 clear lens it's worth the extra.
Great advice 👍
Thanks for watching!
That diagram of too fast or slow really helps
My Hitbox 1200 only has Volts and Amps, the wire speed adjusts itself, but the instructions arent very clear on what volts and amps are needed for different metal thickness.
Best advice I can give with gasless fluxcore is go with a spray setting if your machine and base material can handle it. Zero splatter. A lot of cheap machines can't handle it so weld with gas anytime you can.
Yes indeed!
Do you use negative or positive electrode?
I started a few weeks ago.... doing ok however my machine is super hard to find a decent setting and comes with no "suggested" sticker lol
What machine do you have? One suggestion is you can actually time the wire speed at the low, middle, and high settings and take that speed to online charts for a starting point.
@@-DIYPRO- "TP TOOLS" Lol, I'm in Thailand & everything is backwards, Arc sticks don't have numbers. Metric & Imperial are used in EVERYTHING so IDK if IP/M or MM/m lol. Even some steel at the hardware store is in mm thickness yet some is inch lol. I guess I can do the 6 second measurement & try that. So far for 2.6mm steel I've used 270-340 IPM? and about 16.5v. Feed seems low but cranking it seems to get too hot and the puddle bubbles. Could be the wire too as some I've noticed states + and some - lol yet I was assuming 99% is EN- lol. Simple tasks here are near impossible!
Do the feed and power knobs always move in tandem? IOW do you always move them to the same position? Both at 3:00 for example. - Thx! Eric.
@@gardenfork nope but I can try it lol
Sometimes they might line up but not always. Depends on the machine as well.
What is the best way to learn to weld
Great video, thank you very much, note to self(nts) watched all of it, ....
So, I've been an unprofessional welder for, ah hell, near about 45 mins. now & yet I still have a bonehead question, 'does anti-spatter spray affect the weld any?'
No such thing as stupid questions, just stupid people asking questions, hahah! Just kidding, I wondered that as well. No anti spatter spray and nozzle gel do not affect the weld quality. Use as much as you want!
Thank you for asking 😅 I was wondering the same thing.
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Save some $…instead of Spatter Spray, Pam (or equivalent) works just as good.
Like just spray it on the metal first?
I use silicone spray, even cheaper online - it's a great all-round lubricant as well as anti-spatter. Works out about 1/3 the price of regular anti-spatter.
@@tylermeyer8812 Yes, it dries off fairly quickly but leaves a film behind that does not affect the weld.
You guys flux core was designed to run dual shield gas shield and flux shield so all those damn bbs are cause your not running any gas flux core with no gas makes a sorry ass weld just saying it won’t hold up under heavy stress
Haha, you’re absolutely positively 1000% incorrect.