From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 2/19/2025 5:13 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m134g9ve4k.fsf@void.com...   
   >   
   > Jim - You'd more avoid positional welding with solid-wire GMAW.  You'd   
   > want to turn the work much more than with "stick" (SMAW) where   
   > vertical-up welds are very doable.  Different prep. angles?  You'd have   
   > to ask someone more streetwise than me...   
   >   
   > ---------------------------------   
   > Almost my only use for my little MIG has been patching rust holes in   
   > fenders, which I usually want to remain vertical. The exception was plug   
   > welds in spotweld cutter holes to attach a replacement radiator support.   
   >   
   > In night school I practiced vertical up with solid wire MIG on their big   
   > Miller. I could do it but no one would hire me to.   
   >   
      
   Vertical MIG is a skill.  I can do it with FCAW (and overhead)   
   marginally, but not so much with GMAW.  I pretty much leave GMAW to   
   welding table assembly work.  Its pretty, and needs little or no   
   cleanup, but when an assembly starts getting unweildy and I can no   
   longer put it in the easy position I often switch to FCAW.   
      
   You should have learned to weld upside down underwater.  They would have   
   hired you to do that.   
      
   No where in the heck did I put my big heavy die grinder?   
      
      
      
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