wrought iron fence repair: wire and settings needed.

[Rambozo]

Looks good. You weren't kidding about rusted. That was pretty bad. The best thing is to just cut it back far enough to get a little something to weld to. Was it all at the bottom from sprinklers? If so your repair should be ok provided they keep paint on it. So what did you end up using, MIG or flux-core?

[johnnymg]

Looks good. You weren't kidding about rusted. That was pretty bad. The best thing is to just cut it back far enough to get a little something to weld to. Was it all at the bottom from sprinklers? If so your repair should be ok provided they keep paint on it. So what did you end up using, MIG or flux-core?

The rust was mostly at the bottom but there's one top rail that needs replacing. It turns out the flux-core wire feed worked GREAT!

Thanks again to everyone for the advice/comments. Much appreciated.


Still on the step side of the learning curve
JohnG

[DaveO]

It turns out the flux-core wire feed worked GREAT!

Glad to hear it- I'm a little surprised to hear the flux core wire worked, since your material was thin. Guess I'll have to expand my expectations and try FCAW on thinner stuff.

[johnnymg]

Glad to hear it- I'm a little surprised to hear the flux core wire worked, since your material was thin. Guess I'll have to expand my expectations and try FCAW on thinner stuff.

I turned the voltage WAY down to 15v and the wirefeed at an indicated 90. It almost felt like was "soldering" at that point.