Re: Outdoor Welding

"Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:

"Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m1qzyzowar.fsf@void.com...
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This topic has journey productively far from its start with "Outdoor
Welding".
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On that topic...
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SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding) - "stick" welding - is "the only one".
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Okay I have never done / tried self-shielded flux-cored-wire.
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* when you are outdoors, the equipment is too sensitive and expensive
 for the rough-and-ready work typical of site work.  eg. how well would
 a wire-feeder do if splashed with seawater (?)
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* the wire rusts then presumably won't feed - so presumably it can only
 be used in site conditions when you have a "volume" job where you use
 reels at a time
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So it's "stick" welding for most site work.
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I got to 150A for SMAW 7018 vertical-up fillet welds on the likes of 20mm
plate.
That is quite productive.
Given tide-windows and time, then things like aborting quickly because a
sqall could be seen coming in, it was frequently necessary to throw the
welding cables (stinger and return) and the gas-axe (oxy-fuel torch)
into the sea for the construction barge crew to haul aboard while the
crane collected me fast before "weathervaning" to the incoming wind.
I doubt any wire-feed system would like being thrown into the sea...