Patent ID: 8907248

Claim:
A welding method comprising: joining two metal parts via an arc welding process, the arc welding process including: advancing an electrode to a weld location of the two metal parts, wherein the electrode comprises between approximately 0.4% and approximately 2.5% aluminum by weight, and wherein the electrode is free of lithium; providing a gas shield to the weld location; and creating a weld at the weld location to join the two metal parts, wherein creating the weld includes applying power to the gas-shielded electrode to create a welding arc and to produce a bead of weld deposit at the weld location and a basic slag over the bead, wherein the weld deposit comprises between approximately 0.15% and approximately 1.1% aluminum by weight, and comprises between approximately 0.0028% and approximately 0.0056% nitrogen by weight, and comprises between approximately 0.005% and between approximately 0.0129% oxygen by weight.