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Posted by Franz [4.156.234.120] on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 15:06:35 :
In Reply to: Re: Franz or Glen Indahood posted by Glen Idaho [64.126.155.185] on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 11:02:46 :
Glen's ahead of me on pounds of metal melted per year, but he's a fab shop, and I'm a retarded(according to wife) old weldor who did primarily repair and retrofit.
Stick is still alive and doing well where it is mmost beneficial, quick jobs and different materials encountered constantly. E70s6 will get you done a lot of the time, but it ain't got the entire spectrum covered from monel to sheetmetal and back.
I can still remember dreaming of the endless stick back in the 60s, and thinking it may have come to be when I first encountered subarc. MIG sure seemed to have it covered, then along came fluxcore and dualshield. We started hanging those MIG machines off hooks when they had 7 foot gunleads, and made alot more money per hour in inside situations, but stick still ruled.
In the last 20 years wire in one form or another has pretty much taken over production welding, but stick still exists on a lot of jobs from pipeline to tanks. Stick will continue to hold on due to the ability to do quick changeovers from stainless to carbon and special aplications such as hardface. Wire will take more share on pipeline but it will never totally replace stick on the fittings.
Wire is definitely a good and well developed process, but it ain't more than a hotglue gun in the hands of a man who doesn't know how and more important WHERE to use it.