Don't Buy brand ----welding rods

[Terrywerm]

Understood.
The purists with deep pockets scoff at that solution. Funny thing is that it works fairly well, for pennies.

I hope to meet you at Richard Kings MN scraping class this summer.
As I have much to learn.

Ahhh, the purists!! To have such deep pockets would be a luxury, wouldn't it?? I look at it this way: My rod dry storage costs me pennies compared to a rod oven. The money I save can be used for other things like tooling or castings, or.... well, you get the picture. Now if I was running a professional welding shop, that would maybe be different, but I am not.

I hope to get to a scraping class this summer also, but the schedule is rather full already. I will be spending a week in Nebraska as a coach for our state 4H muzzleloading team at the 4H National competition, plus I have to allow a week of camping with the wife and I only have two weeks of vacation per year so I'm not quite sure how I will make it all work, but I'll come up with something! Hope to see you there too!

 

[JOSHUAZ2]

I have welded for a while and most in my family weld. That said Every pro weldor I know hates lincoln rod. Their 70 series rods are tolerable but the 60 series are simply bad. I like mckay rod but have found good cheap no name rod. Get a tin and try it. I don't hate lincoln I have several of their welders I just don't like their rod. My rod oven is a fridg with an old stove pan element in the bottom and the temp control of the oven controlling it. It has proven cheaper than the old light bulb I ran for years.

 

[Ray C]

Haven't had anything but good results from it myself. Forney and Harris performed fine but the slag was like epoxy that took longer to chip and grind off than it took to do the weld. I had that problem on two or three ten pound boxes purchased at different times and different stores -so it wasn't just a bad batch.

BTW: Jody Collier (a highly recognized and published welder) uses mainly Lincoln -and he does not get endorsement money to use it in his training seminars.

Some comments from professionals about why they hate Lincoln would be pretty useful.

I have welded for a while and most in my family weld. That said Every pro weldor I know hates lincoln rod. Their 70 series rods are tolerable but the 60 series are simply bad. I like mckay rod but have found good cheap no name rod. Get a tin and try it. I don't hate lincoln I have several of their welders I just don't like their rod. My rod oven is a fridg with an old stove pan element in the bottom and the temp control of the oven controlling it. It has proven cheaper than the old light bulb I ran for years.