endicott_jb
Well-known member
So for the last month or so I've been experimenting with dual shield welding. If you don't know what that is, it's where you use flux cored wire and a shielding gas. The reason being for the experimentation, I was at work one day and they were using our big 480v wire feed welder and the welds were looking like crap. Turns out, they have the polarity wrong but refuse to allow me to swap leads around. Anyway, I've been playing around with it for a month or so at home and I'll have to say, it's a very pretty weld when you're done. Almost looks like a 7018 stick weld but less time consuming because you don't have to swap electrodes and chip slag off constantly and less time consuming than MIG because you don't have the prep time. And if you're worried about splatter build up, spray your metal with PAM, yes the cooking spray, first.