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Welding myself a tube frame for a tools shelves.
I bought today 1kg 3.2 6013 rods and started the job. Welding goes good. I am runinng on 110 amperage(Cant get more rood burns like firework and burns holes) and cant get lower must make good penatration weld. And the welds look god.
Buth the rods are giving me trouble.
When I weld and then stop to arange new tubes it wont start until a knock electrode few times on metal.
Electrode core is consumed faster than coated flux and when electrode cools down coated flux is 2mm longer than a electore core. So I hawe to hammer it o the tube frame few times to get it arching again.
What I am doing bad? Wha electodes act like that?
Is my welding technique bad? Or bad amperage? Or bad electrodes? Or what?