MIG Welding Travel Speed vs Stick Welding Travel speed

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Wire fed welding processes like short circuit mig, spray mig, and dual shield flux core have very wide ranges of travel speeds.

Stick welding, while a very good welding process, has a much narrower range of travel speed.

Stick welding excels outdoors, for pipe welding, and one off welds or repairs.

But for production, wire fed processes can make you a lot more money.

Especially bare wire where this is no slag to chip and almost no cleanup.

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I worked 34 years in a fire protection pipe fab shop. Used MIG process 99.8 % of the time. You can get great penetration with wire, especially with the spray arc process. Great videos sir. Keep them up.

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[connormarek]

When i first learned GMAW in school, our settings were 19 volts 220 IPM w/ .035 wire. The technique was just a back and forth stitch. Single and multi-pass. Our instructor didn't want circles.

[olddawgdreaming]

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[stanleybiaz]

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[bojengels]

Back in the piece work days our machines had high speed motors that topped out at 1435ipm. We ran C10 gas with .035 wire with dual schedule triggers. My low speed was about 800ipm @ 27.5 volts and high speed at 1100ipm @ 30.5 volts. Oh and this was on 7 or 10ga steel and it had to be leakproof. Fun times.

[chriswoods]

If you are running a gas mix with 80% argon you can go spray arc and get much faster again, my go to gas is an argon mix with 16% CO2 and 3% oxygen, with this mix I can do short arc, spray arc and also run my favorite dual shield flux core (E71T-12M H4) which requires between 10-25% CO2

[magge]

Thanks Jody good video!

Heat input on first 1.3 kJ/mm
Faster weld 0.9 kJ/mm

Not much more heat. But could be a key element on high strength steels.


What gas did you use?

[georgehill]

If you preheat it up a lot would that help on penetration

[bigpappasss]

Hello Jody, I welded in a small shop in San Bernardino, CA. We regularly almost on the daily weld on a turntable positioner and we use spray arc and get a really ice flat weld and some pretty good penetration. Can you show show a video on that. We run at our Miller 302 machine around 28v and 600-650 ipm welding a 2” tube to a 1/4” 6x6 steel plate.

[highlyalloyed]

We're held to pretty tight travel speed, as well as the rest of the parameters like amperage and voltage, to keep our heat inputs and thus cooling rates in a narrow band. Materials research

[Mandragorast]

What etching solution was used? It worked instantly.

[skoomalegend]

Depending on thickness, stainless, the speed is totally different. Stainless arc is slower by far. Pulse is faster with mild. Yet, I feel arc is stronger with mild. Not stainless

[douglasmcwhirter]

Now switch to something more productive. Select arc 70c-6 .052 diameter, 350 ipm and 27-29 volts using c-10 shield gas.

[rainsrapidly]

I go so fast when mig welding I usually shock ppl ... when I switch over to stick welding I get so annoyed sometimes because of the slow travel speed...and it's constant electrode burnoff... whereas in mig I'm so use to long and short arcing due to the heat index of my puddle...

[Hitman-dsei]

I dont get why you insistently use short circuit when you could use globular or spray even on thinner materials ?