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Jim Comet

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Re: MIG welding upside down, tips needed
« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2016, 09:10:22 PM »
So I went to Toll welding where I lease my gas cylinder from to buy some wire. The only 2lb spools they had were made in china so I went to Home Depot and bought a spool of Lincoln L56 wire from them. After laying on my back/side grinding away most of my splattered welds on my subframe connector. I clamped an angle iron in the vise and set my gas flow from 25 to 20 and did a test weld. What a difference!!. I was able to weld upside down with no weld nuggets dripping down. I went over to the car and it welded up very easy. I wish I had this wire when I started. Jim

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Re: MIG welding upside down, tips needed
« Reply #16 on: April 27, 2016, 09:14:33 PM »
That's very interesting, I would have never guessed that wire could have made that big of a difference.
Jay Brown
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