home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   rec.crafts.metalworking      Metal working and metallurgy      215,319 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 214,190 of 215,319   
   Jim Wilkins to Richard Smith   
   Re: Gasless Flux Core - Surprise   
   02 Apr 25 15:14:13   
   
   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vsk0ik$2h1ms$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 4/2/2025 2:56 AM, Richard Smith wrote:   
   > "Jim Wilkins"  writes:   
   >   
   >> "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m1r02fa6ab.fsf@void.com...   
   >>   
   >> By the way - never tried it but - stainless flux-cored-wire runs on any   
   >> argomix - Argon with some CO2.   
   >> ----------------------------   
   >>   
   >> Does it run with either gas alone? I have Argon for TIG and CO2 for   
   >> autobody MIG, and free stainless flux-core that I haven't tried yet. I   
   >> modified my old 75A Century machine to allow changing polarity. If I   
   >> had a good reason a neighbor might loan me his Hobart 140.   
   >   
   I've found many different answers, perhaps they all work. This says straight   
   CO2 is OK.   
   https://www.harrisproductsgroup.com/en/Products/hpg-na-stainless-fcaw   
   "Economical choice, as 100% carbon dioxide can be used as the shielding gas"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca