[TheForge] RE: Deep draw steel Stick rod vs mig

A Vida osan at netlabs.net
Sat Dec 22 10:56:51 EST 2007



David E. Smucker wrote:
> Peter,  Have you tried welding deep drawing steel - using TIG and using 
> soft tie wire for the rod.  (tie wire used to tie concrete rebar.)   It 
> is close to the same steel as deep drawing steel.  Using this for rod 
> your parent metal must be very clean because there are no additives in 
> the tie wire --  just plain low carbon steel.

	AXDQ is great stuff.  It is not that easy to find, but if you can get 
your hands on scrapped washers and dryers, you have there a good supply 
of it.


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