[TheForge] Welding advice needed pronto

[Craig Schaefer]

My thought is that unless you work really cheaply, he'd be better off 
buying a new/used version of what he wants.
You can use straight argon for stainless.

CraigS
Gresham, OR

Barking Crow wrote:

>Here's my dilemma.  A friend that I sometimes work with on remodeling jobs
>wants me to turn an old 3 compartment stainless steel stand alone sink from
>a restaurant that we've done a bunch of carpentry work in, into a two
>compartment sink by cutting inside both walls of the middle compartment,
>discarding the middle section and welding the two end compartments back
>together to make a two compartment sink with an inch and a half or so piece
>in the middle.  It seems to me like an incredible amount of work and that we
>should just cut out side one of the walls of the middle compartment and make
>it a two compartment sink that way.  He's worried that doing it that way we
>loose the nice curled top edge and that I should be able to weld the pieces
>back together.  Seems to me that there will be warping problems, and set up
>problems not to mention the grinding and rewelding trying to make the joints
>look nice, and the rust problems that will show up.  I'd be jusing my mig
>with I don't remember what gas that I have for welding stainless.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks in advance.   Jeff in Tallahassee where it hit 80 and i was hot in
>shorts.
>
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