[TheForge] bronze

[Larry Brown]

You can buy small rolls of silicon bronze for use in a mig welder talk to 
you local supplier I think mine was Harris. Requires some power to flow 
well and moves quickly. I used a spool gun to do the welding
Larry Brown


At 03:16 PM 6/8/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>I read the emails about bronze with interest as I am doing my first 
>blacksmithing project in bronze.  I've worked bronze smaller scale, but 
>never hot forged it.
>
>It took me about 2 over-heats on a sample piece of CDA 655 to find that 
>sunset red that someone else mentioned.
>
>I know that tig welding is ideal for bronze, but we don't have one.  Has 
>anyone set up a mig for welding bronze?  The sculptor at UW-L does this 
>for touching up bronze castings.
>
>What about health effects?  Would it be the same as with copper, since it 
>is mainly copper and silica?  Are there any other health considerations 
>with hot forging it?  It does have a different smell to than the steel does.
>Thanks,
>-Kirsten
>www.knitsteel.blogspot.com
>www.knitsteel.etsy.com  - my online store
>
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