An article in our current issue may be of interest to hobbyist welders who do stick welding. It's about running that old standby, E6010, with inverter-type machines, and why the inexpensive hobbyist machines don't often do it well. It also has some general info on running 6010 with any welder.
This is the Web version, which loads fast:
If you'd like to see it in our flip book, use this URL:
ESAB wrote this for me on request, and I asked them to cover a specific subject. They did it really well, without pushing their own machines every few paragraphs, like some do. I hardly had to edit a word.
If you go to the flip book, take a look at page 21, too. It's a story about a robotic "snake" that welds tubes from the inside. It's very creepy, and you'll want to see the embedded videos.