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Drying E7018 and hardfacing welding rod

What I have is an old convection oven. It was moms. We had a nice one so I took it to the shop as a small oven.

Bake or broil or Toast (both) with or without a fan. Has temp setting and time shutoff setting.

I hope to experiment with small things with power coating.

But cooking rods in a Bar-B-Que was me - I put the rods in vac bags. Then packed them into Tall Ammo cans.

When I open a can of rods, I put them into a Tall ammo can with rubber seal.

Mart> >> >>> I have a box of 3/32 E7018 welding rod that spent a while without

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Martin Eastburn
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Absorbing moisture again in bad shop conditions is all over in hours, I'm told. Hence hot quivers. There's drying ovens to 400degC - setable and accurately controlled. And hot quivers at about 120degC - simple, light, portable, robust and not controlled.

Basics ("lo-hi"'s / 7016/7018) are reckoned to saturate out at about the same hydrogen level as Rutiles (6013's). Sounds about right - was interested to see steam coming out of rod oven door when flipped it open to see how my rods were re-drying.

Rich S

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Richard Smith

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