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> Welding in cold air, Is it bad?
VaccaRabite
post Jan 10 2006, 08:10 AM
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Over the weekend I bought a welder (Lincoln 140 MIG), helmet, gloves, ans a few sheets of 16 gauge mild steel for practice; and next week I am going to go buy a tank of sheilding gas.

I also bought a book on welding, and it said that welding should be done in a shop where the ambient temps were 90 degres. The author said that 70-80 was ok, but you should not weld when the temperature is cooler then that due to the increased risk of cracking whatever metal you are welding. My initial thought were "Well, there goes my plans for the next couple of weeks," as my garage is unheated and has been between 25-50 degrees for the past months, and will stay there through March.

I'd rather not wait till summer to learn how to weld, but I don't want to crack the body of my car - or the longs for that matter. I'd never heard the temperature thing before.

Is it considered safe to weld when it is chilly out, or do I need to wait for warmer days?

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Vacca Rabite   Welding in cold air   Jan 10 2006, 08:10 AM
Pugbug   I don't know who your author is, but I was a p...   Jan 10 2006, 08:31 AM
Vacca Rabite     Jan 10 2006, 08:46 AM
Cano   http://www.914world.com/bbs2/h...   Jan 10 2006, 08:48 AM
John Kelly   As Pugbug said, you can weld in very cold temperat...   Jan 10 2006, 09:33 AM
riverman   I weld all the time in my unheated garage during t...   Jan 10 2006, 09:41 AM
r_towle   I think that thebest way to learn is to put your 1...   Jan 10 2006, 11:27 AM
dkos   I got a pair of these from tuffrhino.com. Works g...   Jan 10 2006, 02:01 PM
hotdgr     Jan 10 2006, 02:19 PM
dkos   Nomex is better...the coverall above is the cheap-...   Jan 10 2006, 03:04 PM
Porcharu   Like everyone else said welding in the cold is OK,...   Jan 10 2006, 03:35 PM
twistedstang   I wish welding in cold weather was bad. Im a pipef...   Jan 10 2006, 03:50 PM
TimT     Jan 10 2006, 04:43 PM
zainman   1 other thing you might want to do, wear some sort...   Jan 10 2006, 05:18 PM
Vacca Rabite   ^^^^ Oh, hey. Thats a good idea right there. An...   Jan 10 2006, 05:25 PM
twistedstang     Jan 10 2006, 06:36 PM
Brew   Twisted, what kind of pipe work do you do? I thin...   Jan 10 2006, 06:54 PM
twistedstang     Jan 10 2006, 07:10 PM

 

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