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Posted by Richard Smith on January 6, 2008, 8:42 am
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> Hi everyone
>
> Got some expert advice in the UK. Wanted to reach out for North
> American practical experience - as seems much more use of 6010 and
> 6011. Demonstrated massive increase in productivity stick-welding
> seams / butt-joints in boat superstructure plates using 6010's to get
> full-penetration weld, with big high-current 6013 vertical-down to
> fill and "wash smooth" the weld bead. Plate is 5mm thick (13/64th's
> [3/16ths] inch) low-carbon mild steel. A lot of the increase in
> productivity is in grinding flush fast with a powerful 9inch
> angle-grinder, as opposed to the slow sculpting with delicate 4~1/2inch
> angle-grinder of "all cap" zero-penetration butt welds made with
> 6013's (a "fillet-butt", if you will).
>
> The welding is outdoors with wind blowing in over the open water, and
> climbing over adjacently-moored hulls, so MIG is not an option (?).
>
> Richard Smith
'elp!
What I mean is - is this good?
Am I doing the right thing?
Is this what you do?
Please see it like my horizon in the UK - just about no-one knows
anything but 6013 - that's "welding rods" to them! I'm told in North
America "6010 and 7018 are the workhorses of welding". That's why I'm
asking!
Yes I know folk who can check welding specs and know pipelines and oil
refineries. But that's not it. I am asking - is this what you'd do in
your daily bread-and-butter welding?
Thanks in advance
R.S.
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>
> Got some expert advice in the UK. Wanted to reach out for North
> American practical experience - as seems much more use of 6010 and
> 6011. Demonstrated massive increase in productivity stick-welding
> seams / butt-joints in boat superstructure plates using 6010's to get
> full-penetration weld, with big high-current 6013 vertical-down to
> fill and "wash smooth" the weld bead. Plate is 5mm thick (13/64th's
> [3/16ths] inch) low-carbon mild steel. A lot of the increase in
> productivity is in grinding flush fast with a powerful 9inch
> angle-grinder, as opposed to the slow sculpting with delicate 4~1/2inch
> angle-grinder of "all cap" zero-penetration butt welds made with
> 6013's (a "fillet-butt", if you will).
>
> The welding is outdoors with wind blowing in over the open water, and
> climbing over adjacently-moored hulls, so MIG is not an option (?).
>
> Richard Smith