Preserving welding wire

jimbone

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So I dusted off my welder to make a transferase shifter rod for my xj that i converted to a 5sp and my wire spool was rusty to the point of having discard about a 1/2 - a pound of wire to get past the rust. Any ideas as to how I can prevent having to throw about 3$ worth of wire away in the future? Thanks in advance for the input. Take care.
 
Use your welder more often!!
 
I should use it more often than I do, but I have three types of wire on desperate spools. The .024 solid is the least used and the most rusty. Could I put the unused spools in a zip lock with that silica and preserve them?
 
I've about decided my flux wire is bad, from sitting! Back when I first got it, I did some heavy welding & got pretty good with it. Then might have been 6 mo.s, before trying to use again. Just kept welding the wire in the tip so many times I gave up. I do have a Stick welder. Recently I bought a new pack of tips, & then last week, I needed to do some "pretty" welding. Ran out some new wire, cleaned the brass shield, screwed on a New tip, & welded it + 1 more, with out even getting a bead started! I probably need to go to the gas, but my Wire has Got to be BAD! This is not the first time I ever welded!:kaioken:
 
At work we have flux ovens to maintain the welding wire and rods. I don't know the temperature, I think its between 200-300 degrees, but it keeps everything warm and dry, and they still put a shelf life on it. Granted the nature of what we're doing requires a more critical methodology than burning together something to be slammed into rocks.
 
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