Im up on the north slope Alaska welding 12' true sch 80 .687 wall, and Im having a hell of a time getting this stuff to run a nice looking cap. Our caps have to be less then a 1/2" so it takes 2 passes. Were running classic 300d machines, and I've tried everything; third gear, fourth gear, turning the reostat down on the machine in fourth gear, various settings on the remote, rod angle, running a tight arc, spraying it on etc. It'll bug hole like crazy on the edge of the weld from about 2:00 to 4:00. It looks like its going on nice till I buff it off, then I have to repair a bunch of spots. I can lay on a slick cap with 5/32, but I hate to give up on 3/16. Ive havent done any real pipelining yet, but all I've been doing for about 3 years now is downhill all the way out. So Ive gotten pretty good at it. The last job I was on we were running 8010-g and i could lay on a slick cap no problem with 3/16, automatic, to the point I didn't even need to look at it. All the welders up here are having problems with it, but for the most part they specialize in tig. I do know one very good real deal pipeliner that was having the same problem with this rod. Does anybody out there have any experience with this lincoln pipeliner 8p+ e8010-p1 rod? Any tricks to get a nice cap with 3/16? Ive tried to get them to switch to 8010-g, but up here were all just a bunch of dumb pipe welders. Apparently they forgot the first rule of the oil field... The pipe welder is always right.