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Flux-Cored Welding Rods

  • 22-03-2021 11:31am
    #1
    Up Donegal
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    Has anybody tried these or something similar and if so, are they any good?
    TBH it looks almost too easy a process to get a strong secure weld.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Gen.Zhukov
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    Can you put up a link to the rods you're looking at.


  • #3
    Frogeye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭Frogeye


    Up Donegal wrote: »
    Has anybody tried these or something similar and if so, are they any good?
    TBH it looks almost too easy a process to get a strong secure weld.

    Thanks.

    I assume you still need some skill to weld regardless of the filler wire or process.....

    If flux core was that easy everyone would be doing it....

    Frogeye


  • #4
    CJhaughey
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    Rods to me are stick welding and as such have already got flux on the outside of them.
    If you are talking about MIG and flux core wire then that is a non issue, flux core wire is commonly used in construction and makes a very strong weld useful in conditions that don't favour the use of gas, the fact that it produces slag is a way for it to clean the weld area and deposit the impurities in the slag.


  • #5
    Up Donegal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Up Donegal


    Gen.Zhukov wrote: »
    Can you put up a link to the rods you're looking at.

    Apologies for that. I did have the link and I forgot to post it. I saw these rods on a FB ad and, according to that ad, the metal to be joined had to be heated first and the rods could than be melted along the hot surfaces. It looks too good to be true as far as I'm concerned.


  • #6
    Gen.Zhukov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    Up Donegal wrote: »
    Apologies for that. I did have the link and I forgot to post it. I saw these rods on a FB ad and, according to that ad, the metal to be joined had to be heated first and the rods could than be melted along the hot surfaces. It looks too good to be true as far as I'm concerned.

    That sounds like a cross between brass brazing, silver solder, std lead solder which would all need flux. Silver solder and brass brazing rods are available flux coated and lead solder obviously can be flux cored or solid (requiring flux paste/liquid).

    Never heard of such an animal. I'd be interested to see them all the same.


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  • #7
    Frogeye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭Frogeye


    its flux core Jim, but not as we know it.........


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