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You can weld with acetylene, which burns very well; argon is inert and doesn't burn at all, so it is useless for welding.
It stands for electrode. As opposed to R ( rod) for gas welding or TIG welding. If it carries electrical current it is an electrode.
The coating.
The flux is the outer coating on a welding rod. The flux is a very important part of the welding rod.
Metallic Inert Gas Welding - It is a welding process that involves Electricity and a continuous Wire that is used for as a filler rod for the weld.
in order to make a weld you need a welder The above post is a little simplistic but you basically weld using gas or electricity to melt the base metal allowing you to add metal via a flux coated or bare rod. If using gas to melt you would use a bare rod to add - if using electricity to melt you would add a bare rod (with a covering gas) or flux coated rod (which forms its own gas). There are so many welding processes that techniques and equipment vary widely.
welding rod chemical formula?
for steel structure building can i use: -size 2.5mm of 7016 welding rod as a filler for welding IPE240 to plates -size 2.5mm of 7016 welding rod as 2nd pass
for mig welding spatter can be reduced by amp, voltage and wire speed adjustment. check shielding gas. stick welding check the recommended voltage, amps and application for the rod you are using keep your arc short. tig welding, be sure you are using the proper tungsten, and shielding gas and filler rod for the metal you are welding, don't dip the tungsten. make sure the metal you are welding is clean .
ER70S-6 is a very common filler metal when welding with Gas Metal Arc Welding or Gas Tungsten Arc Welding on a low carbon steel (mild steel). This can be purchased as a spool or in rod form.
Tungsten Inert Gas (orTIG) welding is also referred to as GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) and by the term Heliarc® which was the Linde Company's trade name for the TIG process when it was originally introduced.The welding arc is started with a sharply pointed tungsten electrode shielded by inert gas. A separate filler rod is fed manually into the weld puddle in much the same way as is done when gas welding.The process is well suited for aluminum.
E, eletric welding. R, rod or filler. 70, tensile strength. S, solid wire. 6, chemical composition.