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  1. 03-31-2007, 04:34 PM #1
    jeepfab
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    Flux won't melt

    I just bought a new box of 6013 electrodes, and I can't get the flux to melt. I have to grind the electrode into the work, or or the rod melts so far up inside that it breaks the arc. I just finished the old box of rods on the same project with no problems. Same setup, same temp. What's up?
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  2. 03-31-2007, 04:40 PM #2
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    I used to make the packing guides where the fluxxing agents were forced into possition for baking ........the customer described how it works ......
    Fascinating !!
    Sounds like the mix is a-fowl ....overly vitrified !!?

    I beleive you have a Bad Batch there .....take a few rods with the metal melted out , and get them relaced ..../....refunded!

    Phil


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    When one picks up some wood or metal or stone and shapes it into something usefull
    ... I beleive that it has to be a deliberate effort to disavow a creator.

    As you work these, and join them, you feel the force and the will of He
    who formed and shaped the very resorces that you now add your will and force to.
    Further one surely can know when your will and force is not aligned with His.
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  3. 03-31-2007, 04:46 PM #3
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    Never had this problem before, so didn't have a clue. I spent the last three hours surfing the internet (found nothing), and got help here in 5 minutes! Thanks!
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  4. 03-31-2007, 05:11 PM #4
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    Yep, bad batch! Your LWS should swap 'em with no squawk.

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  5. 04-04-2007, 07:03 PM #5
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