Cheat sheet for setting up machines?

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I recently got my stick papers and am currently working on getting my flux core papers.Here is my question, can anyone help me make up a cheat sheet on setting up various machines, and also dialing in a good starting amperage?That is the hardest thing for me to remember, I have no problem doing the process, but I can easily forget what to set the amperage at.So if anyone could help me put this together that would be great. I think I will lay it out like this.Electrode....  Posistion.... Thickness....
Reply:A good place to start.http://www.millerwelds.com/pdf/guidelines_smaw.pdf
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Reply:How about;http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/tools/#calculatorsMost of these or similar are available for free at a LWS."The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life." -Theodore Roosevelt
Reply:I check with wire manufacturers.  Especially with flux core wire.  I have noticed sizable (2v) differences between various mfg's, even among the same AWS classification.  Look on their web site for technical info, chemical composition, or deposition rate information.  Example ranges are usually contained within that info.
Reply:Cheat sheets are useful, but....We teach our students to set machines on a piece of scrap, every day (and we change the settings so they have no choice!). That way when they switch machines, or go on a jobsite where the equipment is trashed, they can just fire up, run a few beads, and get to business.
Reply:Originally Posted by farmallCheat sheets are useful, but....We teach our students to set machines on a piece of scrap, every day (and we change the settings so they have no choice!). That way when they switch machines, or go on a jobsite where the equipment is trashed, they can just fire up, run a few beads, and get to business.
Reply:Originally Posted by RhynoThe best advice yet, even though I have the Miller slide calculators, too.-Rhyno
Reply:Originally Posted by farmallCheat sheets are useful, but....We teach our students to set machines on a piece of scrap, every day (and we change the settings so they have no choice!). That way when they switch machines, or go on a jobsite where the equipment is trashed, they can just fire up, run a few beads, and get to business.