Mike Cunningham ran the OmniPro with flux-cored wire and a variety of stick electrodes. His take: “Anybody can weld with this thing.” You use an LCD screen and dials to set the welding mode.

Esab says its newest family of flux-cored wires can be an alternative to traditional flux ... horizontal and all-position welding. They are said to be useful for jobs ranging from general fabrication ...

Flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) Similar to MIG, except there's no separate shielding gas because the wire electrode has flux in its core, which creates its own shield as the wire melts. This ...

and gas-shielded flux-cored arc welding (FCAW-G). Both FCAW-S and FCAW-G use a consumable, tubular electrode that is filled with flux-materials. FCAW equipment includes a constant voltage power source ...

You stated the base material that cracked was mild steel. Mild steels can have a range of mechanical properties, but most ...

To create the weld, a piece of 0.8-mm flux-core welding wire is threaded through the capillary and into the joint, and fed by hand as it’s consumed. It’s awkward and awful, but it works.

MIG welding is actually two different types of welding. The first uses bare wire and the second flux core. Bare wire MIG welding can be used to join thin pieces of metal together. Flux core MIG ...

This is a 125-amp wire welder. It runs on 120-volt power, uses flux-core welding wire, and is capable of welding 18-gauge to 3/16-inch thick steel. It retails for right around $140 at Harbor ...

While it can limit the tool, not having to use gas for wire welding certainly simplifies the job by forgoing the need to buy tanks and regulators, so the flux core arc welder might be a more ...