Learning to Weld with 6013 and 7014 Electrodes 

I know man I am 21 and cant even imagine if youtube was around 50 years ago, could probably have toasters you could weld with by now XD

Pretty cool. Bet you make the big bucks.

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The E6013 and E7014 also have a thicker slag coating on the weld and a thicker flux coating on the rod, that probably helps a bit too. We use them extensively in Europe for root passes as the E6013 leaves a very smooth bead with not too much penetration and a good clean slag covering on the inside, E6010/E6011's are sometimes used but its mostly the E6013 and the results are just as strong. Open root passes don't need insane penetration, its open after all. More common to see the cellulose rods used when the root pass has backing support.

@@JoshuaNicoll I've been reading that a bit, about how in europe and asia 6013 is more common for root pass than 6010/11 is.

@@pondacres Yes, E7016 is the most common for a lot of coded work though, E6013 is used if nothing is specified, E6010/E6011 are however also used a lot but almost exclusively by US companies or for T fillets where penetration is needed, when it comes to open face roots, we prefer 6013 or 7016 because of the low penetration, you don't need all that much penetration for that joint, but I know 7016's are also used in the US too. It's not all that easy to pass the rutile tests too, E6013's are sometimes annoying, arc blow and the puddle being hard to see sometimes but the arc itself is buttery smooth.

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RedIron1066 6011, 6013, and 7018 seem to be the most common rods. I remember learning about them and other rods in welding school thirty-six years ago. My instructors taught us about the properties of the different rods, which was covered in great detail in the text book, and we learned what the different numbers meant. For example 6013 is 60,000 psi(60)tensile strength, all position (1), and all polarity mild-medium penetration based on the flux coating(3). 7014 run similar, but doesn't see as wide a usage. Terry Block, one of my instructors, told as while explaining the different rod numbers, that most of us that with all of those rod numbers, that we would probably end up running mostly 6011, 6013, or 7018, if we worked in a small job shop or repair shop, and 6010 and 7018 if we worked in the ship yards. 36 years later his predictions were true. Most of my career I ran a Mig gun, but when stick welding was required it was almost always those three rods. Usually 1/8" or 3/32". Also did some TIG, and had one job where I ran an aluminum spool gun for about eight months building drive-thru menus for Jack In The Box.

stick is much easier just much slower if you can do tig you can do any welding .

@@BEAR3780 I just started stick it’s fun once you get it but it’s hell when you don’t.