6010 Stick Welding

Stick welding can be tricky.

6010 stick welding.

In high school classes i try to stick to the fundamentals. Stick welding is a fundamental process that is still used an awful lot. I ve been welding 25 years and i still feel overwhelmed when i think of all the different processes out there. The proper term for stick welding is shielded metal arc welding or smaw for short.

The hobart 6010 stick electrode welding rod is a premium cellulose stick electrode designed for the pipe welding industry and the construction industry. These frequently asked questions will help you to choose the right stick electrodes for your welding application. This welding rod does produce a small amount of slag but it s slightly more difficult to remove than slag from other welding rods including the 6010. While some of our stick welders will such as the powerarc 200st powerarc 300 and even our powertig 255ext tig welder other units of ours such as the powerarc 140st are not geared to be able to weld well with this persnickety welding rod.

Electrodes or welding rods are usually named like e6010 or e6011. Often it relates to our units capability of welding with e 6010. Arc welding with 6010 padding beads. Low spatter and easy slag removal.

Video on lincoln excalibur 7018 welding rods. But i dont get hung up on terminology. Especially 6010 pipe welding. Call it what you want.

Of course the e stands for electrode while the first two numbers like the 60 in 6010 means 60 000 pounds tensile strength per square inch the tensile strength refers to the ability of the weld to resist being pulled apart. It mostly comes down to personal choice but if you don t want to spend too much time and effort chipping off slag then perhaps the 6011 shouldn t be at the top of your list. Arc welding is often called stick welding and vice versa. Stick arc welding uphill and more stick welding pipe using tig for root and 7018 for fill and cover pass stick welding using 6011 rods video shows tee joint tips using 6011 rods tig inverters comparison doing tig and stick welding on a mounting bracket the miller maxstar 150stl is a tiny but powerful tig inverter that stick welds too.

Using the word persnickety may seem. Ac welding power source.