https://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/arc-welding-overhead.html
arc welding overhead with 7018 rods can reign down fire on you…
use these 3 tips to help you put the weld metal up on the piece…not down your collar.
for stick welding overhead, you need to have the machine set just about as hot as if you were welding flat.
electrode angle matters too, and keep a tight arc.
in this video, i used 3/32″ lincoln excalibur 7018 welding rods as well as some cheap techniweld 1/8″ 7018 rods.
I think the lincoln excalibur 7018 rods are superior for overhead welding and pretty much anything else.
Byelorussian Steel Works consists of four main production facilities connected by a single processing chain, namely: steel melting, rolling, steel cord and wire production and pipe-rolling. The plant also includes number of auxiliary divisions and an administrative division.
Steel-melting production includes a scrap preparation shop and two electric steel melting shops. Rolling production consists of a section rolling shop, which includes three rolling mills with different profiles.
Steel cord and wire production is represented by three steel cord and wire shops, a powder metallurgy and die workshop, and a technological packing workshop.
Pipe-rolling production is located in a separate building with area of 40 thousand square meters.
The company’s infrastructure consists of maintenance and repair departments for power, electrical and mechanical equipment, a railway workshop, an automobile workshop and other auxiliary divisions.