They certainly weren't the greatest, but I did some fillet welds for a previous employer. I thought they turned out pretty good, but they were not tested. The plan was to do the work outside. We started the job with the SMAW, but finished with a spool gun. We were told that the rods cost too much?
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We learned the hard way that once we opened the plastic on that pack of five rods, we couldn't weld with them the next day-
at all.
We didn't do anything by a code there, at least until the Coast Guard had had enough.
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Management also used to tell us that since we had a state OSHA we'd never be fined--they learned everything the hard way. I could tell some stories about that place.....