Lidl. Various useful stuff for the boat coming

[savageseadog]

If you can weld stainless just with stainless steel rods then it is certainly news to me.When I did my apprenticeship (with British Aerospace) it was all about Argon arch or tungsten inert gas I think.Admittedly a lot of it was aluminium but I have welded stainless steel myself at a later date & that was with specialized equipment,I forget which.
I thought the problem was oxygenation while the welding process was going on so do you get the same strong bond without insulating against oxygen?

I've had good success with stainless flux coated arc rods, easier than mild steel rods, the welds are strong but not pretty looking. I find they weld cast iron pretty well too, I use a good quality inverter welder which is brilliant.

 

[Nicholas123]

It certainly works and is in fact I find it a bit easier to weld stainless than ordinary mild steel. This is the first weld I ever made in stainless. (I'm a bit better at it now) I made a stripper arm bracket to fit to my windlass, seen here offered up to a similar windlass at a boat show. The welds may not be neat, but achieved good penetration in 6mm 316, using a 3.25mm rod. You would bend the 6mm x 50mm steel double before breaking the weld. The uploader failed to upload the image so I have put it on photobucket.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/Sauniere59/IMG_2640.jpg

I'm glad to hear that your welding has improved Norman

Actually I have been very impressed recently by the quality of stainless steel welding I have seen on some push pits/pull pits using I imagine gas type welding (you could see the weave) & recently on some I had done personally in Belgium.I'm not sure how relevant this is but it does seem to me that a good welder is worth his weight in gold.

 

[Nicholas123]

I've had good success with stainless flux coated arc rods, easier than mild steel rods, the welds are strong but not pretty looking. I find they weld cast iron pretty well too, I use a good quality inverter welder which is brilliant.

I imagine that knocks hell out of a battery though dos'nt it as it is the amps that most arc welders are rated by?

It occurs to me that portable small gas appliances might have a market.Bring it on ALDI or LIDL

 

[single]

I imagine that knocks hell out of a battery though dos'nt it as it is the amps that most arc welders are rated by?

It occurs to me that portable small gas appliances might have a market.Bring it on ALDI or LIDL

Its not run off an inverter, a bit like an inverter microwave.Its just the type.

 

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Thanks, I must go shopping tonight.

 

[Nicholas123]

Its not run off an inverter, a bit like an inverter microwave.Its just the type.

OK thanks for that.