Rod classification

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I'm fairly new to this forum but been in the trade all my working life. A question for those of you in the USA. We (Australia) tend to refer to rods by brand ie. Austarc 16TC or Ferrocraft 61 and call them low hyrogen or rutile. It seems to me that rods are called by their type E7014 rather than their brand in the US. am I right or missing something? Just curious because for example E6013, in our workshop we have 4 different brands of this type and all have different characteristics when welding so we use their name to differentiate.
Reply:You'll see this especially with 6010 and 7018, popular pipe rods, but we also have different characteristics by brand.  Those differences come into play only after getting the rod type desired, though.
Reply:Thanks.Clive
Reply:Clive, over here in the U.S. we usually call the electrode by it's AWS classification (Exxxxx), but they are named by the manufacturer, such as Esab's SureWeld (number and/or letter) i.e. SureWeld 70LH, over in Oz I believe they call all rods OK (number and/or letter), such as OK 48.08.Lincoln (do you have Lincoln down there?) has Jetweld, Fleetweld, Excalibur, followed by (number and/or letter) i.e. Jetweld LH-70.These are examples of E7018.Some specialty manufacturers (maintenance, etc.) use a name only, as the composition does not carry an AWS classification, due to proprietary compounding or characteristic.The two you named would be a E7016 and a E7018 respectively, and forgive me for saying Austarc is awfully proud of the fact they use 100% Aussie iron in their rods.Last edited by ChamferTrode; 05-12-2007 at 06:24 PM.
Reply:ChamferTrode,We use the same classification E7018 but it would be in metric as well on the packet E4818 (megapascals). Being an old git and brought up in the imperial system I still use the E7018 classification but when selecting a rod go for the brand name.Lincoln has a factory in Aus. I saw a documentary on it about 7 years ago. No-one ever leaves except to retire, they are literally employed for life. Have an income way above average and a waiting list to get in. Family members of existing employees being given preference.Both my own welders are Lincoln, and I am ordering some new ones for work this week and I'll very likely go down the same path there too.