Basic Stick Welding Machine Set-Up

Step 1: Select your rods. After that, welder can set the polarity based on the manufacturer’s guides before adjusting the amperage ranges in setting up stick welding machine

Step 2: Get the scrap metal whose thickness is as close as the one you are going to weld. This is important because welding different thickness metals requires different setting. Welders also can consider setting machine as lingting up the match.  A match burning will easily heat up a piece of tin foil to make a drop of water sizzle but that same match has no chance of heating up a frying pan to do the same. I

Step 3: The welding machine should be set hot enough to burn the rod smoothly without sticking, and the rod should not turn cherry red, otherwise the settings are too high.

Most welding shop foreman who interview welders give them a weld test and know from half way across the shop by the sound of the weld if that welder will pass the test. Absolutely remarkable how we as people learn to adapt to challenges! Welding, although it is a science, is also in no small way art. There are many welders that can bend the rules and do what the manufactures say is impossible. However, in the beginning, follow the manufactures recommendations and take it from there!

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