Don't you just love 7018?

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My camera doesn't do these welds justice, they look better in person!6-inch sch. 80 pipe, 30-degree bevel, 5-G. 1/8-inch ESAB Acclaim 7018. 110-amps, 0.0 Arc Force. I'm really starting to like this Acclaim for out of position work, seems to have a dryer puddle. Attached ImagesDon’t pay any attention to meI’m just a hobbyist!CarlDynasty 300V350-Pro w/pulseSG Spool gun1937 IdealArc-300PowerArc 200ST3 SA-200sVantage 400
Reply:when you're good you're good even if you have to say so yourself! nice.i.u.o.e. # 15queens, ny and sunny fla
Reply:I used to be happy to weld with 7018 all day, AC or DC. I was never very particular to any specific brand, until I had to use something called Atom Arc 7018. It was spec'd out on some nuke power plant stuff we were building. They were the crappiest electrodes I ever used. I hated them.
Reply:Oh I'm not that good! Good machine, good rod, yes. But I'm better since eye surgery. Don’t pay any attention to meI’m just a hobbyist!CarlDynasty 300V350-Pro w/pulseSG Spool gun1937 IdealArc-300PowerArc 200ST3 SA-200sVantage 400
Reply:Originally Posted by DetailerDaveI used to be happy to weld with 7018 all day, AC or DC. I was never very particular to any specific brand, until I had to use something called Atom Arc 7018. It was spec'd out on some nuke power plant stuff we were building. They were the crappiest electrodes I ever used. I hated them.
Reply:My big downfall with SMAW, is when Lincoln came out with Innershield. You could go for years just running wire feeders.Don’t pay any attention to meI’m just a hobbyist!CarlDynasty 300V350-Pro w/pulseSG Spool gun1937 IdealArc-300PowerArc 200ST3 SA-200sVantage 400
Reply:Originally Posted by CEPOh I'm not that good! Good machine, good rod, yes. But I'm better since eye surgery.
Reply:Originally Posted by CEPMy big downfall with SMAW, is when Lincoln came out with Innershield. You could go for years just running wire feeders.
Reply:I like innershield as well. NS3M, NR211, and such. Only one I didn't care for was NR202. It spattered a lot. I used NR305 to do some 10" thick X-Ray quality stuff. It welded so smooth, it was like you could take a nap each pass, and still pass the X-Ray with flying colors.  Originally Posted by CEPMy big downfall with SMAW, is when Lincoln came out with Innershield. You could go for years just running wire feeders.
Reply:I'm with ya CEP, I just love 7018! But I really need to start playing with that .045" 21B I have."Where's Stick man????????" - 7A749"SHHHHHH!! I sent him over to snag that MIC-4 while tbone wasn't looking!" - duaneb55"I have bought a few of Tbone's things unlike Stick-Man who helps himself" - TozziWelding"Stick-man"
Reply:I think the last time I ran any .045 was in the mid 1980s. This is 1/16-inch 21-B ran with a Red Face. 21-B is probably my most favorite gas less flux core wire. Just pull the trigger, and take a nap!  Attached ImagesDon’t pay any attention to meI’m just a hobbyist!CarlDynasty 300V350-Pro w/pulseSG Spool gun1937 IdealArc-300PowerArc 200ST3 SA-200sVantage 400
Reply:I have 2 carbon steel stick rods in my shop, 7018 and 6010. No need for any other mild steel stick rods.JasonLincoln Idealarc 250 stick/tigThermal Dynamics Cutmaster 52Miller Bobcat 250Torchmate CNC tableThermal Arc Hefty 2Ironworkers Local 720
Reply:I love 21b especially with a 10-12 inch long reach gun.  Seems to me a match made in heaven.  unless you get to use a flex head.  talk about dreaming while you are sleeping.  I must make myself weld more this coming year.  I have not been a good weldor lately only having to do pity jobs and such.  I may have to go burn a box of brick red p5 and a tin or two of lohys just to stink my overalls up again.  Seems If i am not making any money at it, then I don't want to burn the consumables.  My wife says I am getting cheap in my older age.  But have y'all seen the cost of things lately?  Really!  I may go back to keeping all the half burnt rods in a bucket and recycling them like in the good old days when if it had flux on it you used it.
Reply:CEP, what base metal thickness range would you recommend for the .045" & 1/16"? I have one roll of .045" and I only played with it a very little bit. A while back DesertRider Glen said 1/16" was too big for the 1/8" - 5/16" material, that I usually work with. I was looking at getting some XLR8, which comes in 1/16" minimum. He said I would be better off with the .045", 21B. I wish he would come back here, he had a lot of great input."Where's Stick man????????" - 7A749"SHHHHHH!! I sent him over to snag that MIC-4 while tbone wasn't looking!" - duaneb55"I have bought a few of Tbone's things unlike Stick-Man who helps himself" - TozziWelding"Stick-man"
Reply:Originally Posted by Stick-manCEP, what base metal thickness range would you recommend for the .045" & 1/16"? I have one roll of .045" and I only played with it a very little bit. A while back DesertRider Glen said 1/16" was too big for the 1/8" - 5/16" material, that I usually work with. I was looking at getting some XLR8, which comes in 1/16" minimum. He said I would be better off with the .045", 21B. I wish he would come back here, he had a lot of great input.
Reply:CEP"A nickel-wide, and a dime-thick" - B.B. Voc-Tech Instructor; and you will have a job at the end of the semester.I was one of five employed - in a class of twenty-four.After 3 months - I was one of five.That was 5/10/73  -  I have never been unemployed.You sweep is slow - and your plunge is shallow.  Opus
Reply:Stick-man for the .045 I don't know if I'd go over 3/8-inch thick for the base metal. Hobart didn't put a thickness limitation on this wire until after the Northridge earthquake in California. Before the earthquake I can't tell you how many 1-inch V-butt side bend tests I took with .068, and 5/64-inch 21-B, and never failed one. A couple of them I have no idea why I didn't fail. One time I got sent to a testing facility to take a test, all they had were water cooled Mig guns with these huge nozzles. When doing the overhead plate the splatter would like to hang on the nozzles, on the last cap pass some splatter laid on the wire coming out of the contact tip, it would ride up the wire then fall back down. It did this several times, I was watching and praying it wouldn't go into the weld, but it did. The tech understood what happened when I explained it to him, he measured the plate, and this boo boo was out of the coupon area. Don’t pay any attention to meI’m just a hobbyist!CarlDynasty 300V350-Pro w/pulseSG Spool gun1937 IdealArc-300PowerArc 200ST3 SA-200sVantage 400
Reply:I love 7018. I have whats left of a 50lb box of MUREX Lincoln 1/8". I leave the mother box inside and bring a couple of pounds at a time to the garage you know.  Because the low hydrogen rod can freeze and explode.