Forney 42401 Supercote Hardfacing Welding Rod, 5/32-Inch, 1-Pound

Not super hard but the rods meet their claims. Easy to apply. Happy.

Comes in very good protective cover with 9 rods inside

Great rods! Resurfaced a 140 year old 126 pound Peter Wright anvil and after several months of use it's holding up great!

I bought this rod as a cheap alternative hard facing for anvil repair, as some other reviews have mentioned. It lays down nicely over mild steel DCEN, clean beads and the slag comes off easily. Tested laying down two layers on a 4" round chunk of mild steel after preheating to 350F. In short, it's not very impact resistant (and the data specs do say low impact). Perhaps it's a good build up equivalent for Stoody 2110, but not as hard as I was hoping because light hammer blows still left marks on the surface after grinding flat. Specs say RC 52-58 as welded but I have doubts. I'll check with hardness test files as soon as I can get some and update my review. Four stars because it really is decent for the price, just not right for my application, which should have been obvious from reading the description (ie moderate abrasion and low impact).

Great electrode. It performed better and went on smoother when I turned up the heat.

Used to face a harbor fright anvil as an experiment. Used about three layers. Some small cross checking (cracking). I didn’t follow through hard facing my good (ish) anvil because of the checking. Runs nice and smooth. Slag was easy to remove.

Can't go wrong with Forney.We

It welds pretty good. It does what's its supposed to do.

good hard weld nice smooth arc.

Work great lay down a decent weld that sticks will be buying these from now on

decent hard surfacing

Sur le site on dit une grosse boîte et on m'envoie une petite boîte verte

I didn’t pay much attention and looked at the weight, the pictures advertise a huge box, after I purchased I then realized that the weight is 1 pound kinda sad but it’s whatever