Do Aluminum Stick Welding Rods Work?
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I decided to try out some Forney 4043 aluminum stick welding rods and they didn't really end up working. If you work for a supplier send me some rods that actually weld! 
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FORney. Aluminum stick is an art, for sure.
This is what I'm trying.
Even the comments help.
Thanks
Frowney LOL!
It's all about the preheat. When you nail it, you can get what a hobby welder might call kind of a decent weld. The only way I can get an arc struck and keep it going right off the bat, is to have my stinger in one hand and torch in the other. You lose your preheat in about 3 seconds, literally.
I saw derbador use them as well, was curious more about them and saw your video. May buy some of the Blue Demon ones (think that’s what he used) and try them out.
Yeah I saw him use some on a transport trailer repair. The ones he used worked really good, I'll have to go back and double check what brand he used.
Great video, can I will broken Casa aluminum with the set up you’re using
Just curious did you try reverse polarity? There are always tricks with aluminum. I have seen people have success with stick welding aluminum. Currently I'm trying to tig weld aluminum with a cheesy harbor freight dc tig welder. (At least it was only 50$ at a yard sale)
Possible but a pain
Seems like I tried AL rods as well..... before discovering MIG (if I'm in a hurry) and TIG (if I need watertight and want it to look good).
I know some brands make aluminum rods that actually weld with ease so I'm gonna try to get my hands on some. Otherwise I Tig weld all my aluminum.
Yo open the garage door 😭 you fina start going crazy.
It's pretty cold where I live so I have the door closed to keep the heat in. If I was actually welding something and not just burning 8 rods for a video I would definitely have to open the door.
You need more preheat. The maintenance rods liked 120+ amps with 400-500* pre heat. Use water to clean flux off.
By the end the plate was up to around 400 at least and they still wouldn't burn right. At 120 amps the rod melts to fast to hold a arc. I think the problem was the rods themselves because they are the cheap Forney brand. I've seen other brands of aluminum stick rods that work just fine.
@@JTwelder. Very true. For relatively cheap 3/32 westward 4043 rods run great. The Hobart ones are crap to.
Did you change the polarity like most aluminum rods require?
@@biv1975 nope electrode +
Looked like your pate just kept sticking to the rod and lifting. I would clamp down the plate. So when you strike down it wont stick to your rod and lift off the table. And also try stabilizing the tip of your rod and think of it like striking a match than lifting up just an 8th of an inch. Im sure you knew all this info but sometimes hearing it one more time can make the info stick
The plate was clamped down for the entire first half of the video. It didn't help
Can you do a video on tips for stick welding inconel
Yeah if I can get my hands on some inconel stick rods I will. I have some inconel tig wire I could use as well.
@@JTwelder. I struggle with the stick bad. Tig I’m ok with. A lot of membrane jobs are running flux core but I don’t think I’d ever pass that
@@cumminsbayou if it has slag be sure to drag 😉
você precisa aquecer a peça de alumínio ,
Bad ground CLAMP WORK PIECE
Definitely not THE PROBLEM. If you watched the whole video before commenting you’d see that I ended up clamping the ground directly to the work piece and the rods still didn’t preform.
i tried everything , stick welding never worked on thin or medium thickness aluminum and with thick aluminum no welding required , just drill , tap and screw together ..
"too high of an amperage." What's the proper amperage then please. Kinda at a loss here man.
I bet an old tombstone would fire those rods
Maybe. It definitely wasn't a issue with my welder in this scenario though because I had the same problem running them on a engine drive welder as well.
@@JTwelder. I'm shooting from the hip but my reasoning is the AC/DC which is a potential significant factor
Most likely rod quality though
@@richardvillanueva8786 when I bought the rods I the first thing I checked was that they were compatible with DC and sure enough the box says dcep only for polarity so they're not made to run on Ac. But it still be interesting to try running them on Ac. I don't own any Ac stick machines though because I have no use for one so I can't test it out, otherwise I would of definitely tried running them on Ac.
Wont work on ac....ive tried both with good results on dc
Have you tried giving the surface of the aluminium a light mist of water and welding with the aluminium slightly wet.
You said the rods used sodium flux, perhaps they would perform better as I said.
I know welding steel with a mig you can pretty much use no flux if you lightly spray water on the metal you are welding and you get very good welds.
I discovered this one time when I had run out of gas but still had a lot of welding left to do, I suspect the arc causes a co2 build up from the water but with the added hydrogen from the water.
But it does work very well if you don't have gas, you just need to remember to spray a mist on the surface regularly, and don't get puddles or it affects the weld.
No I haven’t tried that. I should next to I’m using aluminum rods.
Maybe your not good at it ? We all have our weak points..maybe not every welding demo is a reliable test of the equipment .........