Yes I will be covering conversions to metric to make sure you guys know what’s going on 😀.

It wouldn’t surprise me that c25 gas would work for straight flux core. Dual shield functions in that way. The only thing is by using a shielding gas with a non dual shield wire could potentially change the properties of both penetration and destructive testing results (aka tensile, charpy v-notch, elongation, etc). Cheap flux core will weld right through paint and scale on its own, but obviously spatter will be a definite issue. Flux core spatter tends to be much harder to remove than say 6010 because it’s much finer, a chipping hammer won’t cut it lol. I will give it a shot though 😀

@@makingmistakeswithgreg I saw some dual shield wire that was rated for both C25 and C100, found videos on here where a guy was comparing the results. I was interested in regular flux core wire with C25, perhaps Lincoln is secretly compatible? I don't want to try to run 0.045 with my 115v welder, plus I would have to buy another roller.

@@massa-blasta gotcha. I will try it, I have no idea on the results lol. I have no issue experimenting with wild stuff like that 😀

Haha 😂. They have some pretty terrible music on my editing program. I try to avoid using music but sometimes it’s fun 😂

I will be doing a bunch of flux core beads and comparing them soon. It’s going to be a bit different with wire process because you can (in a way) produce any size weld you want based on feed speed. A upcoming video will clarify all of that. Also, excellent observation on the 3 times rod diameter, that is a good way to look at it 😀

A lot of wps’s will say that 2.5 x’s the rod diameter are acceptable, and for wire a lot of times should be about 5-6 x’s the wire diameter which seems a little small especially for the bigger fluxcore wires( .068 and up)

I’ve looked at the Lincoln website and it suggests 5 to 6 times the wire diameter which agrees with you but nothing about stepping up as the wire size increases

@@brianhowe8896 my wording may have been incorrect. I wasn’t suggesting that the bigger wires increase. I meant that it’s not uncommon to see bigger beads than the 5-6 x’s diameter with the bigger wires. Countless times I’ve ran 1/16” and 5/64” wires with 1/2”+ wide beads when the fit up is bad or filling big grooves with multi pass welds. The crazy part is that when I took my first .045 dual shield test years ago I was told to weave the 1” plate the whole way out. Cover pass included. Times have certainly changed, but if there isn’t a restriction put in place ppl will still put in big ole weaves

@@mkearn724 Thanks for that. Very interesting.