[TheForge] Re: Vise squad

[David E. Smucker]

All of the on saw butt welders that I have used have a post weld "anneal". 
You shear the ends of the saw blade and position them in the holders and 
then weld.  After the weld then you hit the current again and it brings the 
weld area and about 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch on each side of the weld up to a 
good red heat.  Then you grind each side of the weld to remove the flash 
from the butt weld.  All of the DoAll Bandsaws that we used had this type of 
set up.  I see no reason you couldn't do the same things with a tig weld, 
followed by use of a torch to post heat the weld area and grind.  I don't 
think it matter if you grind or anneal first.  (Strictly speaking it is not 
an anneal but a normalize, since it is an air cool, but you get the idea.)

Dave Smucker
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Vise squad


> It's been thirty years since HS shop, but I don't think that there was any 
> more to the process than the weld...no post anneal.
> The setup was exactly like what Mike describes at the Michelin wire mill. 
> Pretty slick.
>
> Ralph Sproul wrote:
>
>>Andy,  I thought there was some annealing to be done in this process 
>>besides
>>just butt weld and grind.  Maybe that's my problem.
>>
>
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