Welding Tips and Tricks

At what length do you stop using your filler wire? Do you throw it away?? What do you do with it?

For me it is as much as I can without burning my hands. Usually around 1-2" at the most. I usually just scrap the ends because all I use is basic filler-4043,308L, and ER-70s6. Some guys will take and reeled the nubs together to make a full piece of filler if it is expensive stuff like titanium filler

Thanks for the reply. I stop at 6", hard to feed constantly. So I store my rods in an 1 1/4" PVC 3 ft. tube like Jody; so when you have a piece that's around 24" where do you store it? If you put it back in your 3 ft tubes you lose it and have hard time fishing it out. How do you folks handle this?

I use the short pieces for tacking until they are gone (1" to 2" when they get thrown out).

Unless they are still pretty long, the shorter ones go in a stand for use later.
(little pipe welded to a flat plate - like a pencil cup)

Normally are only a few in the little stand since they get used up as I build.

SMAW sticks go in one too as I build - short ones for tacks or short welds.

My rod tubes have releasable bottom end-caps to get the stubby's out.