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From: Richard Smith <null@void.com>
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking
Subject: Re: Outdoor Welding
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:24:43 +0100
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"Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:

> "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m1qzyzowar.fsf@void.com...
>
> This topic has journey productively far from its start with "Outdoor
> Welding".
>
> On that topic...
>
> SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding) - "stick" welding - is "the only one".
>
> Okay I have never done / tried self-shielded flux-cored-wire.
>
> * when you are outdoors, the equipment is too sensitive and expensive
>  for the rough-and-ready work typical of site work.  eg. how well would
>  a wire-feeder do if splashed with seawater (?)
>
> * the wire rusts then presumably won't feed - so presumably it can only
>  be used in site conditions when you have a "volume" job where you use
>  reels at a time
>
> So it's "stick" welding for most site work.
>
> ------------------------------------
> https://app.aws.org/forum/topic_show.pl?tid=1770
>
> https://www.welderdestiny.com/oil-rig-welder.html

I got to 150A for SMAW 7018 vertical-up fillet welds on the likes of 20mm
plate.
That is quite productive.
Given tide-windows and time, then things like aborting quickly because a
sqall could be seen coming in, it was frequently necessary to throw the
welding cables (stinger and return) and the gas-axe (oxy-fuel torch)
into the sea for the construction barge crew to haul aboard while the
crane collected me fast before "weathervaning" to the incoming wind.
I doubt any wire-feed system would like being thrown into the sea...