[tanglediver]

hey now.

... i hear people say "i use 7018 for critical welds, but for non critical applications like welding buckets onto a back-hoe i use 6013"

?!?!?!?!?!?! isnt that kinda critical? maybe not defcom 4 critical. no need to go hide under the matress critical. but still, anything moving on machinery sounds critical to me...


im not questioning what rods im gonna use (6013 for all you sportsfans keeping score. according to miller's stick welding calculator they are good for 40-90amps and well, i have a small 120 dcep welder so that sounds like a good fit) but im just curious what a "non critical weld" is

I am still trying to wrap my brain around using 6013 on a bucket.
Ah well, it used to be that was the only rod I could run.

Practice welds are not critical, except that you use them to practice for more important jobs. :blush: Small sculpture might not be critical in a safety sense, but to an art critic, they are very critical. :jester: Setting up a machine by running beads on some scrap, that is not critical...
Mostly everything is critical, come to think of it.