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So I bought a welding inverter. Naturally, you immediately need to purchase electrodes for it. The beginner does not know which brand to take, the seller is also, most likely, not an experienced welder!
What now, at random to buy any? No friends, let's consider one brand that will be the best choice for the first and even hundredth and thousandth seams in your welding at home, in the garage, in the country.
Friends, these are OK-46 brand electrodes. The electrodes are imported, originally from Sweden. But they are also made at our factories in Russia. I do not know for sure whether the foreigners themselves built the plant or ours are doing it under a license, not the point, the main thing is their welding properties are quite high.
Let me show you how the packs with electrodes of this brand look like. So that newcomers remember and in the store can easily distinguish them in a large number of electrodes on the counter.
Yellow tutu with black lettering. Nothing extra.
Now let's move on to the main reason why experienced welders liked OK-46 electrodes so much and, on their advice, many beginners also began to use them.
These electrodes are coated with a rutile cellulose, which means.
They can be cooked with a separation. With frequent separation, thin metals are cooked - most of all in the household, such welding is needed for shaped pipes. The ignition is always clear.
You do not need a perfectly clean metal surface for welding. No, it is always necessary to clean up future welding places, simply and in not very clean places these electrodes will weld quite normally.
Which is very important for beginners. There is no such strong slag when welding as many other brands of rutile-coated electrodes. The slag here goes far from the tip of the electrode and does not flood, does not interfere with the welding arc to burn steadily and form a normal seam. The weld pool, metal and slag contours are clearly visible and distinguishable.
You can change the polarity before welding on your inverter. That is, the holder with the electrode can be connected to the minus on the device - this is the right polarity. The holder with electrode to positive is reverse polarity.
Welding polarities are needed for better penetration when working with thick metal. Or vice versa, when welding a thin professional pipe, you can reduce the likelihood of burn-throughs. What polarity is for one and the other, let's discuss in the comments with other long-time practicing welders. Usually, there are a lot of controversies here, even among experienced ones, so I won't write my opinion here, there are many attacks from other welded ones!
The seam is tight and beautiful. It turns out such an article about ideal electrodes, like an advertisement. No friends, this is not an advertisement, this is just good advice. I think in the comments my colleagues will confirm my thoughts in this article.
But there is one but. In our country, OK-46 is produced in St. Petersburg and Tyumen. This is my subjective opinion, who has a different opinion, unsubscribe. So, St. Petersburg electrodes are exactly the same as described above, excellent electrodes with decent characteristics.
But the Tyumen electrodes are generally different, the welding properties are worse. Even the slag does not come off in one monolithic crust, as in the St. Petersburg ones. So when buying, be sure to look at the pack where they were made.
Now welcome to the comments, experienced - write your opinion. For beginners, share their first observations.