What is your single most favorite welding mode?

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Not what in your opinion is the "best" weld mode (stick, tig, mig, o/a, etc....) but what is your single most FAVORITE mode you have fun with or enjoy the most?   I'll start.  Stick for me.   It's almost therapeutic and relaxing (minus the heavy lifting and pre-weld prep grinding and fit-up).   I tell ya, the smell of 6010 burning in the morning smells like....victory. "Hey I didn't come to look and learn, I came to turn and burn.... If I can't light up, I'm gonna light out!"-JodyIdealarc 250 "Fatman"MM 252MM 211 "Little boy" Victor Torches
Reply:I have fallen for 7024. I just got a bunch of 3/32. As Lance would say: YeeHawww!!!!!!Hobart 125 EZHobart Handler 140Everlast STH 160Generic 210 Amp Welder/GeneratorHobart Air Force 500i plasma cutterChinese 50 amp plasma cutter! Youtube Channel : Henrymac100
Reply:Tig or stick with 7018.. I couldn't choose a favorite.Airco Ac/Dc 300 HeliwelderMillerMatic 200 (stolen)Miller Maxstar 150STLMiller AEAD200LE (welding and generating power) Hobart MIG
Reply:I love to tig stainless. But if I had to choose one to do forever it would be stick 7018Miller trailblazer301gLincoln sa200Miller251Miller spectrum 625Victor oxy-acc2002 Chevy duramax 3500 dually 4x4
Reply:Well as a "farmer welder", 6013 on light stuff like purlins and such and 7018. I would like to try 7024, but no very little about it. I understand from talk around here it's for horizontal welding only (jet rod). I weld often, but never schooled. Started about twenty years ago and then welded a 16,000 sq. Ft. Building and went from there. Give me some pointers on 7024.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Reply:Originally Posted by papasmirfWell as a "farmer welder", 6013 on light stuff like purlins and such and 7018. I would like to try 7024, but no very little about it. I understand from talk around here it's for horizontal welding only (jet rod). I weld often, but never schooled. Started about twenty years ago and then welded a 16,000 sq. Ft. Building and went from there. Give me some pointers on 7024.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Reply:Henrymac,Thanks for the 7024 rod tips. There is a process where you weld with a special rod for making bucket teeth and bucket edges harder. What is this called cause I can't remember. What rod do you use. My mind is going really fast cause I'm so short, when I pull up my socks I can't see a thing. lolSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Reply:Hard surfacing ?
Reply:I voted TIG, but the recent stretch of sub arc we had at work was pretty interesting for a change of pace. I don't much like running fillers on schedule 40 pipe with it, but I do like capping with it.
Reply:I've only ever used mig and tig and I've really only built stuff using steel. I have practiced a little bit of stainless and aluminum. By far I love using my tig machine over the mig.  I love how quiet and clean dc tig is. No spatter!!  Lol!
Reply:TIG or 6010/6011 stickI also like brazing with O/A but that doesn't count I guess.
Reply:She was my first and will always be my one true love . Oxy-Acetylene.It brings back a lot of memories from the hotrod era. Exhausts from scratch and this jamming.Last edited by Burpee; 11-16-2013 at 06:40 AM.Bubble gumTooth pixDuct tapeBlack glueGBMF hammerScrew gun --bad battery (see above)
Reply:Originally Posted by papasmirfHenrymac,Thanks for the 7024 rod tips. There is a process where you weld with a special rod for making bucket teeth and bucket edges harder. What is this called cause I can't remember. What rod do you use. My mind is going really fast cause I'm so short, when I pull up my socks I can't see a thing. lolSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Reply:Yep, remember now. Thanks. Could I do this with my Lincoln 225a cracker box welder? Do you have any does and don'ts of hard surfacing? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Reply:Originally Posted by papasmirfHenrymac,Thanks for the 7024 rod tips. There is a process where you weld with a special rod for making bucket teeth and bucket edges harder. What is this called cause I can't remember. What rod do you use. My mind is going really fast cause I'm so short, when I pull up my socks I can't see a thing. lolSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Reply:For me it is all steel nowadays (at work or at home).I use MIG for the lighter stuff (sheet metal and up to 1/8" thick), 7018 for thicker stuff and on hydraulic cylinders.Hard facing, about the best tip I can give is that you try to keep your deposit beads as straight, or aligned to shape of the base contour, as possible.  Don't overdo it when laying down the deposit because you don't even want to think about making a mess and then "clean it up with the grinder".  Grinding away hard face deposit is a form of torture and an exercise in futility.
Reply:Stick all the way for me folks just can't beat it. Minimal weld prep and set up just hood down and burning rods. Now if I had to get choose a favorite smaw procedure, it would be 316 stainless up hill. Challenging enough to sort the men from the boys and just comes out pretty as a picture if you know what your doing with it. Besides that 6010 on any kind of open root is always a joy.
Reply:Tig for me.  Its just easier for me to make consistently "better looking" welds.  Been mig welding way longer than tig, but my progression with tig just "works".  I have only tried stick a couple times, and haven't done s$hit for oxy / acetylene.-AaronJet 17.5" Drill Press1942 South Bend 16x84 Lathe1980s Miller 320A / BP --- 2013 Power Mig 2562012 Jet 7x12 Horizontal BandsawVictor O/A Setup
Reply:Well, I had to pick one so I could see the results...I really like stick welding.But now that I can tig aluminum I think it is my fav too Did I mention mig is super fast for when I'm impatient and just want to hurry up already - must also be my fav....I've always liked to gas weld...it's relaxing as tig....so that's my fav too......flux core...well it's loaded in a little portable right now and not worrying about wind is great....Hmmmm..... Dave J.Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ~George Bernard Shaw~ Syncro 350Invertec v250-sThermal Arc 161 and 300MM210DialarcTried being normal once, didn't take....I think it was a Tuesday.
Reply:I like auto-genetic welding.  I hand it to my kid and say "Look you little so-and-so, I put you through welding school and bought you MIG, TIG, stick, O/A and spot welders.  Fix it."He likes stick, TIG and O/A.  He's ho-hum about MIG but I think he set his pant legs on fire once when he was zinging along.Last edited by Oldendum; 11-16-2013 at 03:29 PM."USMCPOP" First-born son: KIA  Iraq 1/26/05Syncrowave 250 w/ Coolmate 3Dialarc 250, Idealarc 250SP-175 +Firepower TIG 160S (gave the TA 161 STL to the son)Lincwelder AC180C (1952)Victor & Smith O/A torchesMiller spot welder
Reply:aluminum mig   keeps your clothes clean and burn hole free