Did some more today but the 7018's just wouldn't light up!
Even put them in the oven to see if they were slightly damp and still wouldn't!……..They shouldn't be as they were left in the boiler room next to the boiler on a high shelf……….so taking them back to the shop tomorrow and gonna see if they were just a bad batch (I did pull a couple out the box and the flux was cracking)
Only difference between today and yesterday was the amperage setting, was using high volts yesterday and used low volts today so I could get higher amps
So 6013's had to do which was fine as there were no structural welds just the trim pieces on the side and a couple of caps, my stick welds are slowly getting prettier
This is a bit of an ugly one and it was stop start yesterday with the 7018 but theres no slag inclusions so its all good
So I covered this with a 6013………..you can see where the breaker tripped and I had to
reset it before carrying on with the caps
Again a little cap over the 7018's before grinding down nice and smooth, the slag chipped off easy enough (this is post chip/pre clean with wire brush so theres a few bits you can see knocking about)
Angled sides were tacked on
You can see again where the breaker tripped so after resetting I needed to re do the end of the weld after a quick grind
