[TheForge] bronze

[Ralph Sproul]

	Frosty, I've never tried this as I always thought CC was tig and CV was
mig.

	...........Or, are you just pulling our collective legs?

	Your saying that the mig welder will read the resistance of the tungsten
and adjust it's heat as it would for wire melting at a certain point in the
arc - thus giving you an arc you can maintain to do something with?  I'm
trying to figure how the Voltage panel in the welder reads what is usually
the wire being fed to drive the current up and keep it constant at the
Voltage setting it's put at.

	It sure makes sense that you've got the gas shielding solenoid in the
welder and the gun nozzle for shielding - Cool....... now there's something
else I gotta try so I can consider my life complete.

	It also makes sense that the setting is so high for copper alloys with Tig
that you would be worried about blow thru like with steel and stainless if
you selected a voltage to high to start with.

	Keeping up with Frosty is a very educational endeavour.........I just
wonder how bored you were up there to try this out (and was it with your
welder? or someone else's - the first time??)      :-)

Ralph

	PS, I have heard you can braze with an air arc torch on Stainless with
brazing rod (with marginal success & with the air OFF of course).........
But, you probably knew that.    ;-)


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Jerry Frost
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] bronze


Sure.

Pull the wire out of your mig gun and grind a tungsten
tig tip to fit in the mig's contact tip. You now have a
scratch start tig gun.

Use argon.

Frosty
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From: "Fiorini & Skiles" <bkmetal at mwt.net>



>
> 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.
>

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