Im sure you all know it, my question is: Love it or Hate it?
I love it, personally. It triggers some sort of subconscious response that makes me think of camp fires, and I love camping, so that kind of makes me love 6010.
Must be the cellulous...
Whats your vote?
-Clif
It makes me think of Anne Chen :-)
brings the thought of money to mind.
a guy that doesnt love the smell of a 6010 probably just hates the sparks and would rather gtaw all day.
Oh, yes! The wonder rod that works wonders....the rod that keeps giving & giving....The smell of burning cellulose, the cloud of smoke, the stiff, pushing arc. The RIIIPPPPP it makes when you're burning that root pass with a perfect keyhole. It's the rod of the GODS! The smell reminds me of my first college welding course. I had never used it until then. I'm glad I did. It's the best all-around rod for everything & anything on the planet, IMHO. (But, who am I??) :-). S.W.
"This rod is your friend.." (Jeff Haynes, My first welding instructor, referring to 6010)
indeed, nothing that can take place on a jobsite beats the smell,sound, or the appearance of it being consumed, as the almighty, wonder working ,gap filling power of our amigo, the 6010. As said, smells like cash!
missed"this rod is your friend". No doubt.:)
I love the smell of Ozone in the morning!
Yessiree! I truly believe the formula for 6010 (and the SA 200) came from above. Nothing, and I mean nothing is more perfect in the world of welding. I'm a Miller guy, but Lincoln OWNS the stick welding industry & I've never welded with a better stick machine or electrode than Lincoln. That R3R 300 along with the TIG 300/300 have the best arc, bar none in the industry. S.W.
What do you call a hot chick with an SA 200 & a boxful of 6010? "A friend with benefits!" :-)
What do you call the guy dating her? "Lucky as h*ll!" :-)
Are ya'll talking about the 5p or the 5p+, I used to use a lot of them old red rods, boy they do smell good
More bite if ya ask me, p+ is just too soft
The good 'ol brick red. I got boxes & boxes of it. Buy it on ebay & stick it in a nice dry place in my basement. That's the best cheap place to find 5p if you're not in a hurry for it. by far, the best rod for everything. :-) S.W.
Yeah it reminds me of my first welding class in highschool . We burned a heck of a lot of city tin trying to learn how to strike an arc, strike placement, padding, fillet breaks, oh man those were the days.;-) Thanks for bringing back some memories Clif!!
The smell of 6010 in the morning............ it smells like VICTORY!!!!
I dislike the smell of 6010, and I dred it whenever I have to strike a stick arc. I grabbed two stick certs in college and then swore I never would burn those cursed rods again. I've only struck a stick rod once again in 2 years.
Give me the nice bacon crackling sound of GMAW or let me Fuse stainless steel on GTAW all day, much nicer to look at and less smoke.
I hate stick welding, main reason I never looked into becoming a pipe welder
I weld gtaw all day long these days....I still love the opportunity of a broken chair, shelving, occasional deer stand or what have you....cause then I get to plug in the leads and rip thru a couple of rods. I use to hate stick welding too till I learned how to do it well....there is nothing more satisfying then laying a good vertical cap with a lo-hy or tying a joint with a 6010 and knowing before you ever look you got a nice pencil line on the back. I know I am getting off track of the thread but I love running 308-309 too as long as I got a tight coller on my leathers and a flip up lens.
Makes me sneeze!!!!!!!! BTW, does anyone know what the 5P stands for? Or maybe it doesn't stand for anything. Things to make you think!!!!
Best guess.....
Fleetweld 5P and 5P+ are Trademarked names of Lincoln Electric Company.
5P+ is the standard 5P but, has some other added benefits; Quicker arc striking and easier slag removal.
Must have something to do with added binders, elements, and/or what not. Do not know for certain.
Sounds like you better stay in the office partner.;-) Just bustin your marbles brotha.. I see your a student and from Ann Arbor. Are you going to make the jurney up to Big Rapids for that engineering degree? I know the guy tha runs the welding program in Ann Arbor and I competed against a few of his guys in welding competitions.
How many of us on this forum still remember before they put numbers on the rods? Before they put 6010, 7018 etc. I still remember the colored dots and end color of the rod. I started welding during the days when some boxes had numbers and some had dots. Seems like a long long time ago in a land far away.
Dave
I bet if you threw one of them rods back then, a dinosaur brought it back!:)
I also heard that Noah used them to weld up the frame of the ark.....
I remeber the NEMA electrode classification system. When I started the rods had both color codes and numbers. They must have been in transition.
You know Figg? Or Hall? Great teachers, really put us to the test and grilled us on welding quality.
I was going to make the journey up to Big Rapids, but the school isn't even reviewing applications right now, several of us applied no one even got a rejection letter they just forgot about us. If I ever meet the heads of that school I'll have some words with them. I ended up leaving state and went to PCT instead, I've got two semesters left on my welding engineering degree. I'm currently working away at an internship pretending I'm a welding engineer and justifying the aws forums as research.
I always wanted to compete but never had the time, I worked and went to school full time the kids who did it practiced many many hours. Who did you compete against, good chance I know them? They have the nationals winning welds hanging up there always blows my mind on the quality of welds the national champs hit. I might compete next year I'm extremely profficient at what I do but I've flame cut maybe for 2 hours in my lifetime.
Still though I stay away from stick welding, they had us running 5 and 6g pipe thicker schedule yada yada yada, I'm glad they really grilled us and taught us how to weld, still doesn't mean I have to appreciate the crude sticks. I prefer GMAW or FCAW for grunt work and I've mostly done GTAW sheet metal work at my jobs, try running some 22 gauge outside corners with a stick!
Yeah I know Bill real well and he now serves on the AWS welding competition committee with me. I don't remember the names of the three guys I competed against. I competed against 1 at nationals in Kansas City in 1998 and against 2 at the U.S. open weld trials in St. Louis in 1999. Bill has always had someone make it to the u.s. open weld trials and he is a force to wreckin with. He puts out some extremely talented welders. He had a girl make it to the U.S. Open Weld trials in 2001 and she could of won it.
Yah Amanda was her name she taught my first year there nice girl very talented welder. One of them might of been Miles Tilley, that's all before me, I finished my degree there in 07.
Miles Tilley was 2005. I trained him a little bit while he was training at Miller Electric, getting ready for the International welding competition. He was also a very good welder! Do you know what he is doing these days? He's supposed to help us out with the competition stuff, but we haven't heard from him in a few years.
I haven't heard anything about him in quiet awhile the guys down at WCC would know more so than me. By chance did you ever known Jim Colton? He placed 2nd place behind Miles at nationals.
Jim Coltons name doesn't ring a bell. If he placed second, then he would of been invited to compete for one of the 6 spots to compete at the U.S. Open Weld trials with Miles. If Jim did make it to the U.S. Open Weld trials, then I met him, but just don't remember him.;-)
I never done crack, but I would imagine that is what 5p is to me.
I get a jones deep in my bones when I aint burnin it!
I can tell as soon as I walk into my shops at school, that a student is using either 6010 or 6011....just as the aroma of Hoppe's 9 indicates my guns have just been cleaned..LOVE those smells!
AMEN sourdough my sentements exactly!!!!!!!!
I Love the smell. I get bummed out when I blow my nose and get rid of all that black junk that holds the sweet aroma.
Wow I really need a "reply to all" button here...
So it seems like the general consensus is most of you love it :)
To those who dont, Thank you for giving me more of a chance to use it :) :) ;)
to be fair I love the warm, metallic puff of Argon/co2 off of a fresh GMAW weld almost as much as 6010...
And that nice warm breeze of argon postflow coming from a toasty GTAW torch right after you finish a weld...
Guess i just like welding too much...
-Clif
(P.S. Nah, theres no such thing as too much. :) )
There's no such thing as too much 6010, is there ?!?
Man, I just love that darn smell! It seems like nothing could go wrong when welding a root with that baby (6010) perfect weld, just dragging that baby! (pipeliner)
I love it, the ozone smell from GTAW and the smell of horses. My favorite smells!
yea I think 5p smells great.... I prefer the 5p+ myself... my left arm looks like sh!t mostly from that rod.... is everybody else all scarred up to?
Yeah, a few days at the fishing cabin and they stand out great!
I enjoy the burns on my arm, their like tatoos but more random :)
Except I got most of mine from GMAW and not 6010...
You know it.
But most of my dots come from that damn hippy!
must have been a hotpass hand huh? man thats livin. get up at 5 am drink a cup a joe and get some breakfast then off ya go to burn yur ars up all day!! cant imagine a finer way to make a livin.other than porno star or fishin guru
I wore a weather sleeved jacket = very few burns on my hands... however every once and awhile I would be sitting.... and I would get some burn thru on my pants... I think that's where my hate for 6010 started coming from. Stick is too crude an inefficient
I'm still healin gotta loveit though
Where's that pipeline? Looks a little like Colorado..........
edit: porno star? hmmmmm.........I like to think of myself as a porno star w/out the cameras?
lol
Nah oklahoma around McAlester,OK
H*** I want some video proof of my escapades!!! LMAO
nice I was thinking Texas around Denton Texas that I drove through with those kinds of trees
C'mon Sourdough!!!
That looks too flat to be looking like Colorado!!! :) :) :)
Btw, how's the "Rugrat" doing??? All my best to you and your family!!! ;) :) :)
Respectfully,
Henry
Never been to Southeastern CO Hank? :-)
I am sure you have seen the movie "Dumb and Dumber" when the guy wakes up and says "I thought the rocky mountains would be rockier than this." Well thats Southeastern CO. Keep on driveing for about three hours. LOL
Take care,
John
