[TheForge] Welding advice needed pronto

[Michael H. Murphy]

Jeff.

You're a lot better off just getting a two-hole sink.  Unless there is some
kind of sentimental value to it, or you need to make a really odd
shape/size, it's way too much work

Murf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Craig Schaefer
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:05 PM
> To: Barking Crow; Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Welding advice needed pronto
> 
> 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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