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Originally Posted by Strats-N-Vettes
Slag rolls off your helmet, into your shirt, down your belly, and nestles between the skin and where your shirt is tucked in, and will just smolder until it's BBQ time.
Not that I've ever had that happen.  |
Stainless Steel stick rod is the WORST. As the weld cooled the slag would fly off and always land on any exposed skin. Including your face.
Stainless stick welding is quickly falling out of favor these days due to the Hex-Chrome issues. I'm sure plenty of it is still happening here and there but in industrial applications it's frowned upon unless you have good ventilation. Maybe in a fab shop environment where you can pull a trunk up to the weld but in the field that's pretty had to do even with smoke eaters. Besides. Most guys would rather TIG anyway.