Welding Stainless Steel MIG Wire .030 2-Pound Spool #00676

I do mostly carbon steel MIG welding in my home shop for automotive/motorcycle projects. We had a big storm that blew over and broke my brand new stainless steel patio heaters. I didn't want to spend a bunch on $$ to set my MIG machine up for stainless welding buying tri-mix gas for a couple of small welds so I though I would give this a try. It worked great for this simple repair! I don't know if I would be welding stainless counterops with it but for my needs it worked wonderful!

I ordered this stainless steel MIG wire to finish up some stainless welding that I was having a hard time TIG welding. While I can TIG weld, this welding required me to connect round fittings onto a round drum, and there was a flange in the way. I was having a very hard time getting a good TIG weld, but easily did the job with this stainless wire in my MIG welder. I am not sure how some of you experts are able to easily TIG weld some of these items, you have my respect. Guess I need more practice. A lot more practice.Anyway, this spool of wire worked great, as expected.

Good product but it’s not solid wireI was looking for salad wire but I didn’t know what I wanted and then I called the welding supply company and it’s really hard to try to figure out what to buy and the man on the phone spent about 20 minutes and I think I understood a little bitBut I ordered some thing that was solid wire and this is hollow but he said Some wires have different carbon or flux in them but I think I got the right wire this time I re-order something else

It's not as pretty as a tig welder but I think it will hold up just fine.this is with 75/25 mig mix and a harbor freaight 170 welder.

I used this with my hobart handler 240 to weld a stainless exhaust kit. I ran the head 1 setting lower than my welder suggested and it melted into the exhaust pipe very nicely. The welder was used in 220 mode.

I used this on a stainless exhaust project I was doing and worked perfect for thinner material, some thicker and not only welding stainless to stainless, but also a couple of spots I had to weld stainless to mild steel.

This wire flowed nicely when welding, with no bind at the reel. Did the job I needed and expected it to do. Priced fairly. Company is from Wisconsin, which matters to me. I'm satisfied.

To be fair, I don't know if it is the wire or the wheel. I'm using my new Hobart Auto-Arc 130, and the 0.030 - 0.035 grooved side of the wire feed wheel skips on the wire about half the time. Sometimes it comes out great, sometimes it doesn't come out at all. I have yet to try a different brand of wire to see if that helps, but my garage floor is covered in 1'-4' sections of wire that I had to pull out as I adjust the pressure and the wheel in my welder until it finally starts coming out the end of the gun smoothly.