This Hobart ER 70S-6 Carbon Steel Solid Welding Wire offers sound, porosity-free welds with powerful deoxidizers for your work with shielding gases. This Hobart welding wire is great for construction work, farm implement fabrication, shaft buildup, tanks, truck bodies, and general shop applications with poor fit-up or rusty and oily plates. The higher level of silicon in this solid welding wire can make the filler metal seem to float oxides to the surface and slightly more fluid than others. The wire diameter of this carbon steel welding wire is .030 in. long and the spool weight is two pounds.