[TheForge] Stick rod vs mig

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Wire feed rod usually has strong de oxidizers in the alloy 
mix...they care bout the characteristics of the deposited 
weld...the rest is coincidence. Makes it forge funny often...
As Larry notes, thermal cycling sometimes helps...pf

Larry Brown wrote:
> Try heating and cooling low a few times (At least once) Annealing it 
> might help make up for the different metals.
> Usually works for me
> Larry Brown
> Oops, I slipped back to talking bout metal
> 
> 
> At 09:14 AM 12/19/2007 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> For some reason two pieces of steel welded with my stick welder will 
>> forge
>> out clean and pretty but when welded with my 185 Miller and whacked 
>> with the
>> power hammer, the steel looks like it is trying to delaminate. The heat
>> looks right, penetration looks good, the wire is just a solid mild steel
>> wire and the gas is argon & CO2....
>>
>> It seems to do a good job structural welding so why won't it forge 
>> decently?
>>
>> Ron C
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