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When welding stainless steel one of the finest rods to use is the AWS E 309L. The 309 is a versatile welding rod. Its capacity to join stainless to stainless, stainless to steel, or steel to steel makes the 309L a favorite rod the job site. The corrosion and wear resistance of the 309L is quite high. It’s often used in the pipe industry to join fittings and valves where corrosive or abrasive material might cause fast wear and damage to the joint. The 309L has considerable slag so it’s a little difficult to use.

When compared to the traditional welders, an inverter welder has several advantages. Some of the main advantage of an inverter welder is that they are compact in size, and literally they can cut the utilization of energy and material necessities. Spaced out from all others it is the only one which can be engaged by usage of self-regulating power plants.

Today we are making use of several intricate equipments; this is because of the technological advancements. The most important need in the welding processes is the equipment, welding machines, and accessories which lend a hand to the welders to do the task effectively.

Shielded Metal Arc Welding commonly known as stick or covered electrode welding one of the most widely used welding process. The instability casing the electrode thaws during welding.  This shapes the gas and slag to defend the arc and molten weld pool.  The slag must be flaked off the weld blob after welding.

Water welders should have a mixture of skills to sustain in the same industry for years. The need for welding is almost everywhere and the main and riskier part is the water welding. People who have great welding skills conjointly should be a commercial diver to sustain in this field.

Spot welding one of the most popular and oldest methods in the welding process. Also, it is one of the electric resistance welding methods for joining two metal sheets. The best part about the spot welding is that it can join metals that are 3 mm in thickness. The entire amount of heat needed to carry on with the process depends upon the metal. Though it is used in several industries being very particular it serves sheet steel vehicle bodies.

The E7018 is probably the most revered welding rod in the industry. With the reverence it commands, a lot of people jump at the chance to use it. It's a master of structural steel welding and makes a near perfect weld in skilled hands. The problem is that while it offers the potential of a strong, high quality weld, special care must be taken to preserve its low hydrogen properties that give it the qualities it has.

"Once you try 7014, you'll throw rocks at those other rods." Thinking back to that comment made jokingly by my long-in-the-tooth welding instructor in college, I often get a chuckle. But what he said in hyperbole is really not that far from the truth. The 7014 is a great rod. Some professionals tend to dismiss it, largely because they haven’t used it and tend to stick to the code required 7018.

Though it isn't as much of a commercially popular rod as the E6010 in the US, the E6013 is a welding rod that finds much use in other countries in place of the E6010 and E6011. It's a much more smooth and easy flowing rod, though penetration is relatively shallow. It's often derisively referred to in the US as a "sheet metal" rod, referring to its limited penetration. That's not all bad though. It simply means it’s a more forgiving rod. For beginners, this is an excellent rod for confidence building.

The last time, we looked at the E6011. This time we'll look at it's big brother the E6010. Granted, the 6010 is a difficult rod to use, and not for the average user to take on in the beginning. It has a cellulosic flux, and very hard driving arc that offers exceptional penetration. Like the 6011, it too has a 60,000 lb tensile strength rating. But for Pipeline, Construction, and large fab shop it is the primary rod used for stick welding in root pass situations.