The work deals with the results of investigations of influence of pulsed electrode wire feed parameters on the conditions of deposited metal bead formation, wear resistance and losses of electrode metal in electric arc surfacing in CO2. The comparative analysis of results was carried out obtained at constant and pulsed electrode wire feed. It was shown that change in electrode wire feed rate at constant power parameters of surfacing process allows efficiently influencing the formation of deposited bead, wear resistance and amount of losses of electrode metal. The given result is achieved due to change of kinematical conditions of electrode metal transfer from the electrode end through the arc gap to the molten metal pool. The most important field of the modern welding science and technology is surfacing. The methods of arc surfacing acquired a dominated position in industrial practice. One of the widespread methods remains surfacing in pure CO 2 . However, this process has a number of disadvantages, the main of which are the following: large penetration depth of base metal; high losses of electrode metal for spattering (from 5 to 15 %); narrow range of surfacing modes with producing a satisfactory bead formation etc. [1,2].The studies, aimed at eliminating disadvantages and improving this technological process, are the subject of numerous works, from which it follows that conditions for formation of deposited metal and manufacturability of arc surfacing in CO 2 are determined to a large extent by the possibility of implementation of controllable transfer of molten electrode metal to the weld pool [3,4].The effect on electrode metal transfer at constant rate of electrode wire feeding and pulse control of electric parameters of welding arc was realized by such producers like EWM, OTC Daihen, Kemppi, Cloos, ESAB and a number of others. Fronius realized a combined electric mechanical control [5][6][7][8][9][10].A very scarce information is available in literature on the possibilities of control of molten electrode metal transfer only due to the change in electrode wire feed rate using control circuits of electric parameters of serial sources of welding current.For these investigations a unique mechanism of pulsed electrode wire feed was designed at the E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute (Figure 1) which allows controlling the electrode metal transfer without using the feedback with welding current source.The investigations of effect of the pulsed electrode wire feed on geometric sizes of deposited bead were carried out for characteristic ranges of parameters of surfacing in CO 2 , at which a satisfactory formation of surface of the deposited metal is preserved: surfacing current varied in the range of 80-400 A and arc voltage was 14-38 V, surfacing speed was 7 mm/s, electrode stickout was 12 mm, consumption of shielding gas was 0.3 l/s, diameter of nozzle was 20 mm. Power sources Kemppi FastMIG KMS-500 and VDU-506 were applied. The base metal was steel St3. Electrode wires Sv-08G2S and Np-30KhGSA of 1.2 mm diamet...