mx842
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I'm finally getting to the point where I can set up my welders in my new/old pole barn. It's new but the way it's been going it will be old before I finish it.:laughing: I finally was able to get my big oven off the trailer it's been sitting on for three years and into the building where I can work on it to repair some damage to it while it was outside all that time. I never did completely finish it so this is a fix and finish kind of deal. I started working on it last week but I got very little done because I ran out of wire. I had several small 2 lb spools but didn't want to use them so I went to my welding supply place and picked up a 33lb roll of solid core wire so I could get back to working on the oven.
In the mean time I was doing some clean up and trying to put things in order around the shop and I found this brand new roll of Lincon 71A 85 .045 Ultracore wire I had bought when I first bough this new Miller 252. I had forgotten that I had it because of the way all my stuff has been scattered out while I have been working on my new shop. Anyway It's still in the unbroken box and still in the foil package so It should still be good even though where I found it was rather damp and humid.
I asked my son who is a welder at a large factory here in town about it but he didn't really know because this is the wire they use at the plant he works at and they use so much of this wire it rarely stays on a spool drive but a couple weeks before it's used up but if for some reason one of the welders doesn't use up a roll within a month it gets pulled off and a new roll goes on. They say there is some kind of welding rule somewhere that says moisture can effect the resin and cause possible failures.
They do this even in their climate controlled shop so I wondering what is going to happen if I break open this roll and try to use it in my not so climate controlled shop considering this is the first roll of wire this machine has gone through and I have had it over a year now and I think that was just a 10 lb roll. I'll probably be using it more now that I have the machines at least set up to where I can use them but it will still be some time before I have the money to finish the building to the point to where I can go to work.
My son didn't really know how long the stuff would last and stay usable because they never leave it on a spool but so long so I'm wondering what you guys think.
In the mean time I was doing some clean up and trying to put things in order around the shop and I found this brand new roll of Lincon 71A 85 .045 Ultracore wire I had bought when I first bough this new Miller 252. I had forgotten that I had it because of the way all my stuff has been scattered out while I have been working on my new shop. Anyway It's still in the unbroken box and still in the foil package so It should still be good even though where I found it was rather damp and humid.
I asked my son who is a welder at a large factory here in town about it but he didn't really know because this is the wire they use at the plant he works at and they use so much of this wire it rarely stays on a spool drive but a couple weeks before it's used up but if for some reason one of the welders doesn't use up a roll within a month it gets pulled off and a new roll goes on. They say there is some kind of welding rule somewhere that says moisture can effect the resin and cause possible failures.
They do this even in their climate controlled shop so I wondering what is going to happen if I break open this roll and try to use it in my not so climate controlled shop considering this is the first roll of wire this machine has gone through and I have had it over a year now and I think that was just a 10 lb roll. I'll probably be using it more now that I have the machines at least set up to where I can use them but it will still be some time before I have the money to finish the building to the point to where I can go to work.
My son didn't really know how long the stuff would last and stay usable because they never leave it on a spool but so long so I'm wondering what you guys think.