🔥 Hot Max 23056 32 Inch Electrodes: High-Performance Welding Consumables Review

Approximately 5% of the rods were damaged on the ends. This was before they were placed in a clear plastic bag as there was no powder residue left in the bag. Metal doesn't stick to them as well as it does to the Forni rod. The welds don't seem that strong. In use they seem to be somewhere between 7018 and 6011 for welding. I would never buy them again. They're worthless: cleaning up and re-welding is a lot more expensive than getting it right the first time with a good rod.

I'm not very happy with these wands. Difficult to lighten and extremely difficult to retrieve - worse than any other rod I have used before. The slag is the most annoying part. It really does look like dried, caked dirt and it's hard to tear yourself away from it. I stopped trying to "pick it up” in the leaf, like others, and even raking with a hammer does not work - it is "picked out” with a hammer, and then with a spoked wheel. The board looks good but takes 1/3 longer than other rods because

What else can you say? I've used many different brands of welding electrodes from cheap to crappy to explain to your boss that this stuff can't be $128 for a ten pound box. I am building a steel fence about 2 acres, I want it to be as cheap as possible as I will be burning a lot of bars. I use 7018 because I don't want to spend a lot of time cleaning the seams before welding. I've used about 10 pounds so far, it burns well. Like most 7018's the new rod starts up easily but re-starting in the…