Welding Pipe With 6013, Uphill & Downhill

Hi! In Hungary 6013 is 30% cheaper than 7014 or 7018. You dont have to keep them dry, nor dry out them before use. Better is the electrode negative polarity. But you can use them with AC as well (in this case no magnetic effect for arc). And It is easy to fire up them with 45V open circuit voltage.
Vertical is hard with them. If mandatory I prefer uphill cuz flux flows like water :D.

Man 3/32 of 6013 is worst frfr

6010, 6011, 7018, And Harris super missile weld for dissimilar metals and cast steel is all you need.

6011 is just 6010 for homeowners with AC only machines.

6012, 6013 - 2.5mm for root pass if you really want to . But if you must to do it in EU we are usually use hand held amperage remote. Usually we use 7016 and 7018 for roots. There is a reason if you using 7016 and 7018 - they are expensive so if you put weaker root 6012 then cover with 7018 than overall cost is way cheaper. 7016 uphill root 7018 fill and cap that is wery comon in EU or 7018 all the way! It is nice to see that some one across the sea experiments with our technics like we do with yours!

6010 and 6011 are similar 6013 and 7018 you have to run a little warmer because of all the flux

Some tech knee welds baw 😎😎😎 . I have burnt a many of those on some precision drilling rigs all over the gulf coast

I'm green. what are you doing specifically when you strike the arc? it appears that you quickly drag it several inches to the start.

I layed my first bead with 6013. I’ve never used it for anything other than to burn rods for practice. I’ll see what I can use the 6013 for at work as I’ll be taking a box with me to work tomorrow.

6013 was made for thinner metal, sheet metal mostly.

I use a lot of 1/4" 7024 rods on heavy equipment repair. They are great for flat and horizontal and have a very high deposition rate. Try some 7024 when you have a chance. It is quite different than anything else. Another really good rod for high strength alloys such a a514 and t1 is the 11018m Excalibur. They are a little more difficult to weld with and usually require a preheat. I really like the videos where you try something new and share it with everyone.

I’m thinking maybe get some 3/32 6013. That rod is probably too big for that application.

6013 5/32 indeed is way too big for this application. You need to go to about 160 amps I guess for making it run smoothly? Take a 3/32 @ about 80 amps for a flat weld and a little less for uphill. That said, the uphill weld on a 6013 will never look as good as uphill 7018 in my opinion. Better roll out and you'll have a beautiful cap with a 6013. Nice video mate!

Hi Austin, i love your channel been watching for years but dont comment much, im just a hobby welder myself, love arc welding and been playing with a bit of tig lately doing some stainless water tanks for a boat, i love your passion for the job ! Messing with the tanks got me wondering what the thinnest material you have ever stick welded or the thinnest you would entertain ? Have you ever used tiny rods like 1/16" ? Apologies if youve said in the past ive missed some of your videos, have to go back and binge them all one day when i get a chance that would be awesome 👍👍

Hey I am 73 and retired living in the Philippines.
All though I grew up around welders I never learned anything about arc welding. I have a lot of experience using a torch welding copper.
I took up welding when I retired building a custom truck.
I have watch tons of welding videos, but I have learned more from watching just a few of your videos than all the others.
I was recently given some 6013 so this video is very timely.
Thanks you so much for the education.

6010 & 7018 for pipe line, 7018 for everything else structural. 7024 instead of 7014. The 7016 send it back to Australia.

6013 on pipe? More like 601-whee! Let's just stick to flat steel, shall we?

6013…is the devils favorite rod….6011 same as 6010 but all polarity’s….7014 or 7018 good rods..Steve

6013 works well in all positions, maybe try a slight drag angle downhill going down hill also keeps things from getting too hot and burning through. Here in Ireland 6013 is the by far the most used rod.

i run 3/32 6013 on the ole 200 works okay on exhaust pipe and tractor sheet metal. 6011s cause tractor supply dont carry 6010. to me a 6011 same as 6010 performs the same. in my opinion also im no welder

I really struggled with slag inclusions with 6013 ,so much so I just 6010 or 7018 for everything.
I like how without hotstart its easy to light for tacking .

Hello Austin
I always have problems with 6013
I have never been able to weld vertically or horizontally with 6013, because puddle heavily drips and sags. Maybe our 6013 is very poor quality

I used 6011 on ac on my bosses pipe fence works great for magnetized drill pipe. Found it worked better for me if I ran it hot and stitched or circles better then just dragging the rod

Hello from Germany . We use 6013 RB12 electrodes for high pressure pumps and pipelines up to 350 bar. I use DCEP for roll outs and DCEN for uphill. also works great for AC. 7018 is hardly known here, even if it is in nuclear power plants. 6013 passes every ultrasound and x-ray test..

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I quit using 6013 since I discovered 6011 work a lot better on galvanized, or rusty stock, it works perfectly even on thin material, it uses less amps than 6013.
7014 works pretty good on mild steel, better than 6013.
For me, 6011 or 6010 are the most useful rods.

Need a little 3/32 weld it uphill kinda like LH just got a lot more slag and harder to read to puddle

6011 works good on drill stem but it don't run a bead for shit

Pretty sure 6011 and 13 rods are commonly used in europe like we use 6010 and 7018. It's just a farm rod here in the states... runs really easy.

Thank you for sharing. The local store I buy rod from. 1/8" 7018 is 60$ a box and 5/32" 6013 is 30$ a box. I was trying the 6013 out making a double tree for horses. Couldn't get it to weld because my heat was to low.

I was always informed that on the farm 6011 was for welding newer pipe or metal,, 6013 was farmers rod as referred to and used for older rusty pipe or metal.

Stick your free hand in your pocket when talking....gawlee thats distracting

Thats a horrible rod to use runs terrible and has poor properties

6013 is a good rod for fabrication if you don’t have a mig. The beads look nice and it doesn’t penetrate a lot like the 6010/11 series do. It can be used on thin metal as others have said. BTW I’ve been welding almost 26 years and I’m still learning all the time.

I've ran 6010,6011,and 6012.Never had much use for 6013.Maybe I'll learn something here.

Interesting, as always. 👍🇺🇸

UK based here. I do mobile field repairs. Agricultural machinery ect. 3.2mm 6013 rods are my daily repair rod. I weld steering arms, hydraulic ram eyes, almost anything steel on a machine. If it breaks after I’ve repaired it then it’s a very rare occurrence.

6010 or 6011 is more than anough

Do it down hill minimizes the risk of blow outs doing it uphill you get better penatration but it's way hard to do without blowing through or we like to say getting a blowout

6013 is a very slaggy rod. The slag can obscure the puddle. For what you were doing I would have used 3/32 5 amps hotter than I would on a flat weld with little manipulation, just a stringer. The rod is so slaggy that when you try to whip and pause or side to side you can get slag inclusions. 6013 are great on dirty welds, say a gear box mount on a bush hog, where you have grease, dirt and rust that are hard to remove. I do not like them myself. They are just too slaggy.

I wouldn't feel to bad, 6013 can be the shits. It honestly doesn't like to run a weave or a wider weld in my experience. Small stringers. I pretty much just use it for if I'm welding light gauge materials that don't need to be super strong or for tacking stuff then coming back and putting on a better weld with 7018. It was described to me as "dirt farmer rod" when it was in welding school.

Looks good from my house. Thanks for sharing 👌

6011 and 6013 are primarily for AC machines. It will run on DC but it runs better on AC. With practice 6013 runs really well vertical up and down. Flat welding is a dream with 6013. Keep a 20 degree drag angle to force the slag to the back of the puddle on AC.

Boy howdy, only 17yrs? Haha, I'm 32yrs in and still learn very day. I miss the smell of grinding disks in the morning...and get some guards on them grinders!

Lol, i find it funny bro going downhill and whipping uphill with 6013😂
6013 would be closer related to 7018
Not really meant for downhill, and i laugh at the whipping part because it is not really a fast freeze Rod. So it wont give you those ripples like the 6011 does

Definitely to large of a rod for schedule 40

its not stubborn its smart. it took me a while to admit that i only needed 2 rods on my truck. 6010 and 7018. if i needed any other rod i could load them for that day whether its nirod, stainless, 80t whatever. no need to pack oddball rods.

Just stay with what works.

When commercial pipeline welding are they x-rayed?

6011 and 6013 are designed to be used on AC current. 60ll has a softer arc. When I went to welding we run 6013 to learn how to strike a arc. 6013 sheet metal rod. soft arc as well.