[TheForge] Wire question

[Chris Kilpatrick]

Phlip,
     I don't use wire, I just weld the end and watch for shear (layers sliding sideways in the billet)  I have never had any luck rewelding any spot where I have had shear.  I have reground and reworked and still no luck.

-Crimson

----- Original Message -----
From: Phlip <phlip at 99main.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Wire question
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:25:07 -0400

> 
> 
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> 
> > Phlip,
> >      I have found that welding just one ned, and not both helps my billet
> weld together.  It seems that some steels change size more than others when
> you heat them up and welding both sides makes for bowing and wrinkling (read
> shears and voids). Welding one side keeps them aligned, but allows them
> their own thermal expansion.
> >
> > -Crimson
> 
> Thanks, Crimson. That was pretty much what I'd planned. I have all three of
> Hrisoulas' books on the topic, and I've been studying them carefully, and
> I've been able to get some advice from a couple of his students, so I pretty
> well have the background information down. Now all I need is to get the
> stainless steel wire in, and DO it.
> 
> No doubt, shortly thereafter, I'll be grouching and complainung, wondering
> what went wrong in some aspect or another, but I think, for the moment, I'm
> as well prepared as I can get ;-)
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
> 
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>   Blacksmith's credo.
> 
>   If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
> 
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> 
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