that is not an optimum gas choice, but its a bit late now, with WPS's run and all.  Id like to see about .5-1% CO2 in there, makes a difference in penetration

I'm not sure I agree with this.  82 and 182 are different alloys:

82

I'm not sure I agree that they are the "same"

182 is ENiCrFe3
82 is ENiCr3

...at least in the cored wire world.

HTH

Hi Brent,

Yeah, I am feeling better today yet who knows how well I'll feel tomorrow with respect to my health... I had some free time today waiting for people like my visiting nurse who never showed but called to say she had a flat tire... And then my physical therapist called to tell me that she couldn't come over today because of a schedule mix-up with one of her other patients... She did however tell me that she would be coming over on Friday after Thanksgiving...

So I ended up going through my exercises and in no time I was pumped up enough yet bored out of my skull for about 5 minutes... This led me to get online and visit the forum to browse around looking for a post or two I could enjoy answering to... I took some time to gather all of the information I posted in my replies and it was fun being challenged to give a thorough reply...

I have to give thanks to our Lord and Savior for sparing my brain from anymore mental anguish and illness than what I already have gone though in the last few months...

Now I have so much to be hopeful to eventually be cured of most of my illnesses and losing all of the fluid waste byproducts that was accumulating in my body as a direct result of my worsening kidney health because of the excess weight which I carried for a few years now until I got really sick from chronic kidney failure... Because my kidneys failed as bad as they did and had no chance at restoring some of its functions for them to do their job and pass the waste fluids through to my bladder... There was a steady increase of fluid retention to the degree that my other organs such as my lungs and my heart suffered as a direct response of the kidneys not being able to perform its designated duties as it would normally...

On the day I was rushed to the hospital because my brother found me slumped over in my power chair and unconscious, my heart had a series of attacks and my lungs were no longer passing enough oxygen into my blood stream for my organs to keep them healthy and as a result I fell into a coma for 6 days in the ICU.. And after 6 days, my brother came over to visit and was sitting next to my bed and talking to me promising me that he would never again treat me with the very little respect he had shown to me over the years because of envying me so much in order to deflect his own lack of success... He pleaded to me to wake up and before he could get up and walk away, I woke up and told him: "You know I have been waiting for such a long time to hear you apologize to me for your shortcomings!" I must have spooked him because he went out of the room screaming to the nurses to hurry up and get over to my room because I had woken up and he wasn't sure if I would stay awake...

When he came back into the room he was more composed and expressed his happiness to me for pulling through and then he started explaining to me what was going on with me from what the doctors told him... The news wasn't good is an understatement! And then he told me that they had already started me on dialysis while in a coma to try and suck out all of the fluid waste byproducts that were trapped in my body... When I heard this, I knew right then that my life had changed dramatically and I would more than likely have to go through dialysis for the rest of my life... Unless I could find a matching donor to circumvent the UNOS transplant waiting list which if you were fortunately able to get on it, the odds of receiving a kidney transplant were almost non existent... Because the kidney has to be more specifically matched for quite a lot of different variables than let's say a liver would be matched... And most likely with 146,000 or more people on the waiting list for a kidney (The most of all of the organs to be donated) would mean that there's no chance for me to get one unless all of a sudden 100,000 or more would pass away who were on the same waiting list God forbid!

The only chance was to have somebody in my immediate or extended family to donate one of their kidneys if they were as close to a perfect match as one could possibly find and there weren't any volunteers so far, but you never know how people can eventually change their own minds... After hearing these factoids, I started to get a little depressed but, somehow I knew that this will get better... I didn't have clue how, but I was still confident enough to convince myself that we meaning me and my family would find a way to get me a kidney... In the meantime, I started regularly on dialysis, then eventually discharged from the hospital and then the skill nursing/rehabilitation center... After getting back home, my brother ad to drive me to dialysis which the closest center was around 45 minutes away from where we lived...

This went on for at least a month or more until I was finally approved for transport by the Clarion county transportation service for low income residents (I don't have forty thousand or even a down payment and couldn't make the payments afterwards for a wheel chair van which I would need eventually if I had to drive myself to the dialysis clinic.) and it was a blessing indeed for both of us because it meant that my brother only had to drive me to the clinic once a week on Saturdays instead 3 times a week which took a lot of his own time because each daily session is 4 hours and it was free!!!

So now as I was getting comfortable with the fact that I would be on dialysis for  the rest of my life... I was looking at the evening local news on television and they had a story about potential new methods of curing folks with debilitating forms of arthritis and joint replacements as well as diabetes and kidney disease also... In fact, this technique once perfected could be used to replace tissue and every organ in your body!!! It certainly grabbed my attention and then the story got into the details of this new technique... They used stem cells and immediately I was worried but as they begin to explain the process, I became confident that this would eventually work for me...

Stem cells were harvested not form embryos or aborted children, or form other human beings... The mensychal stem cells used to perform this technique of regenerating tissue and organs were to be harvested directly from my very own fat cells!  After the harvesting, the stem cells are then injected to the site of pain or an organ that has or is failing and then once they go to work, these stem cells trigger and boost our own built in natural regenerative response by replacing damaged cells with new, healthy cells as a replacement... The damaged cells eventually get discharged from the body as any other waste byproduct your body gets rid of... Well I was elated because there were no longer any more moral issues to contend with and it boosted my hope to the stratosphere!!!

On top of that, I wouldn't have to worry about organ rejection because the new tissue that made up the organ was my own therefore eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs which were the primary reason why my own kidneys eventually failed after 18 years of taking the drugs twice daily!!! So now I find ways to challenge myself and keeping my brain busy which is probably why I'm feeling better these days - Yay!!!

Finally, there are human clinical trials starting soon across the country using this technique as it had already been proven to work successfully on a variety of animals including dogs and are already being performed with excellent and successful outcomes so it's only a matter of time before this technique becomes a recognized procedure that will eventually change the face of medicine as we know of...

Thank you Brent, and everyone else for their prayers because they are starting to get answered as I type.

Respectfully,
Henry

The wire won't make a difference. Your 20deg bevel is most likely the problem. This is semi narrow groove. You can have sidewall fusion problems with a lot of alloys with that bevel and pulse GMAW. As you said, open it up.

Henry, Js55, Welderbrent and others, thank you very much for your help!! I will communicate the suggestions and let you know how it all pans out.  Henry, I wish the best of health to you!