The objective of this work was to analyze the coating performance embedded in a SAE 1020 steel deposited with SAE 310 steel using the coated electrode welding process. The coating was applied at 110 and 130 A of current, without and with of the specimen inclined in 20° from the horizontal. The purpose was to determine the deposition efficiency, where dilution, reinforcement, bead width and depth of penetration were evaluated under different conditions. It was observed that with the increase of the current and of the inclination of the piece the dilution and the penetration of the bread deposition metal increased, with subsequent decrease of the amount of metal deposited and reinforcement, since the width of the bead decreased with the increase of the welding current and grew with the increase of the angle of inclination of the piece. Therefore, the microhardness results were slightly better in the fusion zone and the lower dilution and penetration were obtained in the current condition of 110 amps and with angle of inclination of 0º.
