Canuck
Frozen Garage Hell
- Joined
- Feb 1, 2006
- Location
- Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Yeah, Noah (the guy with the welding skills) and I have been saying how hard it must be to make money doing this. It's so fiddly, and with the warping, they're all a little different.
I want to do two passes, yeah. Seems like that's the best way to get 100% penetration. But we'll see what happens once we get going. Noah is a little concerned about adding essentially twice the heat into the piece, encouraging more warping.
It's less heat if you do two passes. The first is basically just fusion with very little filler and depending on your land thickness would be maybe 50 A. Then the cap is put in with just enough to get it to fuse all the way around. Pulse with like 100 A full pedal.
When I was making headers, It always takes about 50% more time than I think it will take and with purging and all the other messing around, it never got fast. Mild steel would be different, but stainless is time consuming to get it nice.