5 sub categories
Engweld is the best place for all professional and domestic welders to source their welding rods. We work with the best brands in welding consumables to bring you the best-quality welding electrodes available, helping you achieve a good weld every time. Our full range of welding rods includes 6013, 7018, stainless steel and cellulosic electrodes, ensuring there's something suitable for all applications that require electrodes.
Welding rods, often also called welding electrodes, are an essential consumable for MIG welding and forms of stick welding like arc welding. The welding rod creates the arc which generates the heat required to melt metals and bond them together. Consumable welding rods come in different sizes and compositions, with each type designed specifically for welding certain materials in different applications.
Welding electrodes are often classified based on tensile strength and welding position, helping welders find the right rods for their welding task. You should also select the right welding rods for the materials you are welding and the equipment you have in order to always obtain a strong, consistent weld. Selection of the right welding electrode is essential when it comes to the strength of the weld, bead quality, minimising splatter and clean-up.
There are also non-consumable electrodes which are used in TIG welding processes. These tungsten electrodes do not melt during the welding process and you can view our selection of tungsten electrodes elsewhere.
We offer a wide range of welding rods including mild steel (rutile), low hydrogen (basic), stainless steel, repair and maintenance and cellulosic in a variety of sizes from 1.6 - 5.0mm for a broad range of welding applications, including the perfect electrodes for welding steel. We work with the biggest brands in the industry, including Bohler, ESAB, Lincoln Electric, and Oerlikon, to bring the best welding rods to you today.
Selection of the right welding electrode is essential when it comes to the strength of the weld, bead quality, minimising splatter and clean-up. Read our guide below which explains what all the different types of welding rods are and what you might use them for, including low hydrogen and stainless steel welding rods, plus arc welding rods suitable for welding mild steel, dissimilar steels and cast iron.
Engweld also stocks welding electrode quivers and ovens for storing and warming electrodes for welding to achieve optimum performance.
If you need more information or need help choosing the right welding electrode for your application, please get in touch and speak to one of our experts.
Unsure what size welding rod you require? Read this handy guide which should make everything much easier.
Read more
At Engweld, we sell various different types of welding rods and electrodes. As such, we have put together a guide that details what each type is for. Read it here.
Read more
