How to avoid common flux cored welding problems

Flux cored weld­ing is one of the more com­mon weld­ing appli­ca­tions avail­able to the man­u­fac­tur­ing and oth­er indus­tries today. Since it is com­mon, there are a cou­ple of tips to avoid flux cored weld­ing prob­lems and improve your weld­ing quality.

One prob­lem that man­u­fac­tur­ers face is wire feed­ing prob­lems in the robot­ic weld­ing pack­age, accord­ing to Bernard​welds​.com. When wire feed­ers have issues with burn­back or birdnest­ing, the arc is extin­guished pre­ma­ture­ly. This can lead to defects in the weld, and con­sid­er­able down­time for the manufacturer.

Man­u­fac­tur­ers can avoid this com­mon flux cored weld­ing prob­lem by mak­ing sure the wire feed­ing speed is cor­rect, and that the wire is not tan­gled. Reg­u­lar pre­ven­ta­tive main­te­nance can help to cor­rect these issues and keep com­pa­nies from los­ing valu­able pro­duc­tion hours when a prob­lem like this arises.

Oth­er prob­lems that man­u­fac­tur­ers face with a com­mon flux cored welder don’t have to do with the welder itself, but the mate­r­i­al it is weld­ing. One exam­ple is poros­i­ty. The web­site states that poros­i­ty is a result of gas becom­ing trapped in the weld, either in one place or through­out the weld. This kind of issue can cause weak­ened integri­ty in your welds.

Poros­i­ty is actu­al­ly a fair­ly easy prob­lem to con­trol. Man­u­fac­tur­ers need to make sure they have prop­er qual­i­ty con­trol in place to check the sur­face of work piece met­als pri­or to weld­ing. This com­mon prob­lem can be pre­vent­ed by mak­ing sure to remove rust, grease, paint and any oth­er sur­face con­t­a­m­i­nants from the work piece pri­or to the begin­ning of the flux cored weld­ing process.

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