New to welding

[kenlip]

For a total novice, or someone with limited experience (like me), this is possibly the best educational video I have seen on the 創et.

Steve Bleile Stick Welding 1 - YouTube

Also, it is the only video about welding I have seen where one can actually see the weld puddle and not just a massive flare of light and some smoke.

He has other videos about TIG, MiG, Oxy , etc.

 

[Shield Arc]

Question....what does the Dedicated E6010 port do on the PowerArc 200ST versus most other machines that have no such port?

Mark can give the technical answer. But I think it changes the voltage.

 

[yomax4]

Guessing the port hooks to higher open circuit voltage leg which is needed to run the cellulose flux rods 6010 and 6011.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

Basically yomax is right. It also runs through an extra/separate inductance coil and runs a different internal setup and arc force and hot start programming.

 

[Rip]

Thanks, Mark....so have the rods changed recently to a different flux or that some inverter welders need the different set-up to run even the old standard rods optimally? 90%+ of my stick welding has been 7018 (some 7014 & 7024) on DC MG or transformer, so I have no recent reference.

More recent welding has been MIG w/CO2, but looking at some of the new portable MIG/Stick combo units in the 160-180 A range for light fabrication and outside equip repairs with fluxwire.

And Welcome Kenlip...another Aussie on the forum....the more the merrier!

 

[BMan2005]

Finally finished prepping the 3pt arm and welding back in new braces. 1st pic 7014, 2nd 7018. I think my fillet welds are getting much better.

 

[Shield Arc]

WOW! BMan2005 those welds are very impressive!:thumbsup::thumbsup: You are a natural at welding!:cool2::cool2:

 

[dragoneggs]

WOW! BMan2005 those welds are very impressive!:thumbsup::thumbsup: You are a natural at welding!:cool2::cool2:

I think BMan has been playing with us all along! :confused3: Nice job! :thumbsup:

 

[Big Barn]

I think BMan has been playing with us all along! :confused3: Nice job! :thumbsup:

Well, he HAS been only welding a "few weeks" whilst being mentored by an unnamed member that admittedly has only a "few weeks" experience under his belt.

Nice progress. BMan

 

[BMan2005]

I think BMan has been playing with us all along! :confused3: Nice job! :thumbsup:

Well, he HAS been only welding a "few weeks" whilst being mentored by an unnamed member that admittedly has only a "few weeks" experience under his belt.

Nice progress. BMan

WOW! BMan2005 those welds are very impressive!:thumbsup::thumbsup: You are a natural at welding!:cool2::cool2:

Thanks guys, learning in leaps and bounds when I start working on a project. It's like I notice or make mistakes more.

My grinder would disagree with y'all. Running two, so one can catch it's breath when I switch out. Lol


Picture I took earlier tacking up a brace i put much lower running across & welding it to the brace running along the arm & to the arm it self. This should in my mind eliminate the weak points that cracked how it was originally designed. Going to put some more in sometime this weekend if I can catch a break.