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| rick 918-S |
 Apr 13 2008, 10:54 PM
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Hey nice rack! -Celette  Group: Members Posts: 21,143 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Now in Superior WI Member No.: 43 Region Association: Northstar Region 
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Lots of you guys will know this stuff but some may find it helpful. Here are a couple of photos of a Mercedes I'm working on for a friend. This car was butched back in the 70's. I'm trying to put it back together. All the spot weld flanges are damaged with brazing. The brass needs to be removed and replaced with steel so I can spot weld the car back together.
Some of the flanges are good for the most part, So I'm not cutting them off completely and making new ones. Were I can, I use a piece of copper and simply run a couple beads of weld across the copper and then grind/file the weld back to the thickness of the metal. Your wire feed will actually arc on the copper. So you can even start your arc just off the edge of the metal your repairing and then move into the damaged edge. This also works good for a backer on small holes. The copper will pull some of the heat out of the weld causing a rapid cooling effect. A simple source for copper flatbar is soft copper tubing. If you've done any home plumbing repair you probably have a piece of copper tubing under the work bench. Just hammer it flat and your in business. Attached image(s)  
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| jd74914 |
Apr 14 2008, 09:23 PM
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Its alive Group: Members Posts: 4,864 Joined: 16-February 04 From: CT Member No.: 1,659 Region Association: North East States |
I thought that 90amps hurt with gloves on. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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rick 918-S FYI: Some welding tips Car related Apr 13 2008, 10:54 PM
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on butt welds that will show, yet you cannot ... Apr 14 2008, 09:41 PM Mark Henry Here's a real good MIG welder tip...but not to... Apr 14 2008, 06:16 PM sww914 My best welding tip for today is buy an auto-darke... Apr 14 2008, 06:25 PM scotty b When tig welding NEVER touch your filler rod to yo... Apr 14 2008, 06:28 PM Porcharu
I thought that 90amps hurt with gloves on. :lol:
... Mar 14 2010, 12:17 AM rick 918-S I have a couple fusion welders. One I purchased fr... Apr 14 2008, 10:06 PM thesey914 Thanks for the tip Rick - I could've used that... Apr 15 2008, 06:56 AM rick 918-S
Thanks for the tip Rick - I could've used tha... Apr 15 2008, 06:48 PM Gint With all of the talented welders we have on this s... Jan 3 2009, 07:54 AM rick 918-S Thanks Mikey! :D
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