5 Tips and Tricks to Improve Flux Core Welding

I've said it before but this video I go into more detail on why you DON'T need the nozzle when flux core welding.
Tips and Tricks to making your Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) or gasless MIG and MIG welds looking AWESOME!

1- Remove the Nozzle 0:07
2- Helmet 1:31
3- Settings 2:15
4- Keep It Simple 3:30
5- Nozzle Gel 3:58

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[Forgeymcforgeface]

That diagram of too fast or slow really helps

[paudiaz]

Best advice I can give with gasless fluxcore is go with a spray setting if your machine and base material can handle it. Zero splatter. A lot of cheap machines can't handle it so weld with gas anytime you can.

[ThatJerkFromCali]

Put a heavy duty rubber band over the voltage and speed knob that way all you have to adjust is one

[Not.The.Avg.Smitty]

I did a thing on welding without a nozzle in my tips and tricks. Try to cover the threads using an old diffuser insulator. Or get a piece that covers it like you showed, you don't have to but... I save money in brass diffusers this way not just the gas hole. The threads get ruined fast if you arc them off your product, just setting it down can bump the trigger or still have some amps in it to arc im sure you've seen it.
I've made a few mistakes. Imo that's one I don't forget when you need it on a holiday weekend and the stores are closed.😅

[teddybeardiy]

Realize this is an old video but my experience is, since I use a small inverter type multi-process machine, it comes with a small gun thus a small nozzle which is hardly bigger than the contact tip assembly, so removing the nozzle has no practical value except for protecting the threads and gas ports from spatter, as well as from short-circuiting the tip by accident. Those plastic tip covers are not available here anyway and from the looks of it, same size as the nozzle anyway for my gun size. As for helmets, my eyes are bad already, including night and colour-blindness so I need a hood that goes really low on shade levels. Finally, I've found that I am forced to do left-handed drag mig style for best visuals even though I am right handed. Crazy but I gotta do what I gotta do.

[BobWhite]

Is that a Miller Digital Infinity? How do you like it?

[DazFab_Metalworks]

I tried flux core for the first time a few days back it's weird first time around...dragging, no shroud, .if the slag came off like stick does I'd probably use it more .

[LostCloudx]

I started a few weeks ago.... doing ok however my machine is super hard to find a decent setting and comes with no "suggested" sticker lol

[rayzer]

So, I've been an unprofessional welder for, ah hell, near about 45 mins. now & yet I still have a bonehead question, 'does anti-spatter spray affect the weld any?'

[Sally]

Save some $…instead of Spatter Spray, Pam (or equivalent) works just as good.

[JohnHaynes-kw]

You guys flux core was designed to run dual shield gas shield and flux shield so all those damn bbs are cause your not running any gas flux core with no gas makes a sorry ass weld just saying it won’t hold up under heavy stress