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A: I would like to answer your question as a general discussion of flux-cored welding. The American Welding Society (AWS) classifies all tubular electrodes having a flux on the inside as flux-cored wires, and calls it the Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) process. All flux-cored wires have some similar characteristics. These include forming a protective slag over the weld, use a drag angle technique, have the ability to weld out-of-position or flat and horizontal only at higher deposition rates (depending on type of wire), ability to handle contaminants on the plate, etc.
Welding Safety. Welding is so hot, it's cool. It doesn't get better than fusing two pieces of steel with a thin ribbon of molten metal. PM has covered electric-arc welding since the 1920s, and lately we've noticed a major revival of interest in it. Helping to drive that is the wire-feed welder, a compact machine that feeds a thin wire electrode down a hollow cable to a small plastic gun. It's easy to use: Strike an arc with the wire and move the gun down the joint.