Method of producing nonconsumable electrode for use in arc techniques

A method of producing a nonconsumable electrode ready for use in arc techniques without working-in operations, said method comprising forming a blind hole in the working end face of a high melting core of an electrode, the hole extending axially in the electrode in substantially symmetrical relation therein, filling said blind hole with pulverized doping agents, compressing the doping agents in said hole to a depth of about 3/5 the depth of the blind hole, filling the remaining portion of the hole with a mixture of the pulverized doping agents and a powder of the high melting core material, said high melting core material being present in a predominant amount in said mixture and heating the mixture from the surface of the electrode until a permanent fused surface layer is formed at the hole to produce an enclosed space with doping agents in the electrode wherefrom the doping agents can diffuse through the fused surface layer and provide constant and stable operating characteristics at the working end face of the core.