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Erie Fred
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What flavor of "Flux Core" ?
zzr1200
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Gasless welding possibly?
denlow60
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Will he weld indoors or outdoors?
and then it is not wise for thin material.
I've been running solid wire ER70S-6 INE brand. What I'm trying to do expose myself to other wires. The last time I ran flux core was some gigantic 7/64 wire at a structural fab shop. That stuff is a lot of fun, but I don't have a machine big enough to run that at home. My little Miller 220 will only go up to .045 wire. I've never ran small diameter flux core wire before.
E71T-11. The INE brand from Italy.
Yes I could run gasless while I'm waiting for my bottle to be filled. It takes up to a week to get a bottle filled here in California. I only have one bottle at the moment.
I'll be running the flux core outdoors on at least 1/8 material or thicker. What is that in UK measurements? 3.18mm they tell me.
zzr1200
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Us oldens understand 1/8"+........
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For that thickness of steel, flux core will work very well, the issue is the amount of smoke (lots) and it's tricky with thin material (less than 1.5mm) but it can be done.
On thicker material 3mm up it's just about the easiest method to stick stuff together.
On thicker material 3mm up it's just about the easiest method to stick stuff together.
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I wouldn't use it for thin material.
you have to roll through where the wire is pulled and replace it with karter rollers, which do not let your wire slide. and you have to figure out for yourself what your parameters are.
I would take 1mm or 1.2mm wire if this 1.2mm fits in your gun.
Does all your MIG wire in the UK have a specified diameter in millimeters? And then I would assume the contact tips are specified in millimeters as well, correct?
yes
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FYI most ‘hobby’ flux core machines run down to 0.8mm I haven’t found a thinner flux cored wire. The tips are the same. Regard thickness of steel 1mm is ‘doable’ although on most U.K. cars(where these things are mostly used for repair) one must expect a fair few ‘blow throughs’ due to ‘thin steel’ in an older car that lead to more metal removal/replacement..
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Try Lidi, they always seem to have shelves full of 0.6mm whenever I go in hoping to find 0.8mm. The Lidl FC welder comes with tips for wire from 0.6 - 1.0mm
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With the Clarke welders, they use a 1mm tip for 0.8 gasless wire, I think the wire expands & sticks, not sure though as I don’t use it, just recall it from years back. I would think the same should be when using Lidl wire. I know this wasn’t the question, but the info might help someone.
My old Clarke Gasless used 0.9mm tps and FC Wire.
Handy tip - don't use Clarke Branded 0.9mm FC Wire.... its rubbish.
(The welder ran better E71-TGS FC Wire in 0.8mm quite happily)
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The wire I was supplied with their welder was 0.8 have never seen 0.6 in any Lidl so I guess there is some activist working his way around Lidl’s buying it all up!
. 030 works fine. I can easily weld 1/4" with it.
