Squirt Welder?

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I had a request today for a "Squirt Welding" system.  This one caught me off guard.  It looks like Lincoln used to make LN-8 and LN-9 Squirt Welders that were a type of hybrid GNAW of some sort.  Am I off base here?  Does anyone have any more input?Thanks
Reply:Squirt was an old trade name for Sumberged Arc Welding. (SAW).The arc is buried below powdered flux and the wire is fed into the arc and weld puddle like MIG.  (Threre is no need for shielding gas or a weld helmet.)
Reply:Gotcha.  I would not have put it together with SAW.Thanks.
Reply:Lincoln had a very unique "language of welding":  Lincolnductor, RedDarc, ShieldArc, PowRarc, WeldanPower...I'm not positive, but I kind of think "SquirtWelder" referred to any Lincoln wire process; because even the feeders equipped for use with shielding gas, carried the name.Last edited by denrep; 01-17-2008 at 02:00 PM.
Reply:Thanks.
Reply:Very interesting information about the past history. ThanksThe other day I was at the grocery store and some younger men were talking about welding and I asked them if they knew what "stick" welding was and they did not know!!! They grew up working with MIG(GMAW).Sure made me feel old. But "stick" welding is still very useful.
Reply:That makes me think about a photo i saw of a test on titanium 4 inches thick being welded for a submarine hull. It was 12 feet long test section. "V" groove and was performed with a Gian TIG torch on rails and pwdered flux. Did not see if or how filler was being added.I wonder what that would be called?It is not any of the 26 welding processes I already know about.The strangest process that I have seen first hand was USW (ultra sound.)It was a factory that welded plastic swimming pool filters. A large sort of garbage can size blue container.The sound really hurt my ears. The guy operating the machine was wearing NO earmuffs ,hope he was wearing  plugs, and he proudly showed me that he had lost one his fingers and said it did not even bleed when it was cut off. I really hope he was joking!!!
Reply:Ultrasonic welding - a type of friction welding where the pieces to be welded and mashed together and vibrated against one another at ultrasonic frequencies.  The fast rubbing generates heat, and the parts melt together and are mushed together.A lot of those annoying plastic clamshell packages that take a knife or cut-off wheel to open are joined with USW.
Reply:Lincoln also had proprietary "squirt" line of products that were not just power sources.  The Squirtmobile was one of them, which consisted of a set of magnetic rollers and guides to run along SAW tee joints without the use of a track.
Reply:Most guys down here near the boat yards regard mig welding as "Squirt guns". You know, point, and pull the trigger, out squirts the wire. The one place I have actually heard that term!!And then, after so much work...... you have it in your hand, and you look over to your side...... and the runner has run off. Leaving you holding the prize, wondering when the runner will return.
Reply:Look what I found! Attachment 15702Attachment 15703Attachment 15704I guess it wouldn't hurt to wipe 'em off and read the plates once in a while!Last edited by denrep; 10-19-2010 at 11:22 PM.
Reply:My LN-22 says Squirt Welder on it as well.Disclaimer; "I am just an a$$hole welder, don't take it personally ."
Reply:I'm not sure if my LN-25 does or not. The first flux-core I ran was a Lincoln that used 3/32 wire. It was called a squirt welder. I think Lincoln still uses the squirt welder term. The process on the sub hull sounds like submerged arc also called sub arc. I could be wrong on that though. Might be plasma arc. I will try and look it up later today if I have time.The difference between art and craft is the quality of the workmanship. I am an artist.