Don't dip a cold nozzle. I like to weld for a little bit, say a minute or two, to heat up the nozzle. Then dip. Then I would wipe off excess gel and weld on a piece of scrap for a few seconds to also burn off any excess that could otherwise drip into the weld puddle. For the production welding I did, I would do this maybe 4 or five times and hour removing splatter build up b4 each dip. I would take the nozzle off at the end of the shift and replace with an old one. Most welders that preceded or followed me would either get a new nozzle and destroy it by the end of the day because they didn't use the gel, or use the nasty one I left because they didn't care. I would keep the one I took off in my tool box, and it would last for months. Thats of course provided I remembered to take it off at the end of the shift
