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shenion
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I have some cheap rods. They don't have a stable arc and the slag cools way too fast so you get inclusions unless you run them real hot. The flux tends to flake off.
Good rods are so much easier to use and not much more expensive.
Good rods are so much easier to use and not much more expensive.
shenion
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Not in chunks from the rod while welding.
Unforgiving, it's easy to lose the arc and you don't have to let technique slip much to get a slag inclusion. Much more critical as to current.
Poor restrike, which is a pain if you are just tacking.
Inconsistent from rod to rod.
Poor slag detachability, you have to hack it off.
Sometimes a thing like arc blow, where the flux seems to give way at the bottom of the rod near the arc and the arc shoots off to the side.
Sometimes, nothing on the box suggesting positions, polarity, OCV or current range.
Often a very thick flux which means the rod is only any use on the flat, but they never told you that.
A lot of these problems are lessened by using an inverter, DC and with electronic wizardry to start and maintain the arc, but with a buzz box they're even harder to use.
Generally, harder to use and get good results.
Poor restrike, which is a pain if you are just tacking.
Inconsistent from rod to rod.
Poor slag detachability, you have to hack it off.
Sometimes a thing like arc blow, where the flux seems to give way at the bottom of the rod near the arc and the arc shoots off to the side.
Sometimes, nothing on the box suggesting positions, polarity, OCV or current range.
Often a very thick flux which means the rod is only any use on the flat, but they never told you that.
A lot of these problems are lessened by using an inverter, DC and with electronic wizardry to start and maintain the arc, but with a buzz box they're even harder to use.
Generally, harder to use and get good results.
Only £3.99 to find out. Not much more than the price of a pint.
http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_27222.htm
When they're gone, they're gone.
The ones in the picture look lighter than the ones I bought the last time they ran the offer. I suppose they buy them in a job lot from wherever they can get them cheap.
I was dieing to try them for some reason.
http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_27222.htm
When they're gone, they're gone.
The ones in the picture look lighter than the ones I bought the last time they ran the offer. I suppose they buy them in a job lot from wherever they can get them cheap.
I was dieing to try them for some reason.
