[TheForge] Metal working problem...again

[Larry Brown]

Try the tig with argon and coat the pieces with silver solder flux and let 
dry keep the amps low as possible. Try on scraps
Made a brass weather vane this way, the silver solder flux was a tip from 
Dick Rightmeyer of the NYSDB group
http://www.northeastblacksmiths.org/gallerymembers.htm for the weather 
vane. It has now tarnished evenly as one piece after about 7 years
Larry Brown


At 10:05 AM 4/15/2009 -0700, you wrote:


>Jerry Frost wrote:
> > So form the eyes separately and weld them on from
> > behind later.
> >
> > You have a tig welder now. . . Remember?
> >
> > Frosty
>Well, i had a crack in the metal and i thought of your comment Jerry..So
>i fired it up ( needed to find the slow argon leak anyway)..wire brushed
>the piece and forged down some rod out of the same material..and tried
>to TIG it just after doing a bead on some stainless.
>What happened was i got a lot of flashing ( presumably zinc) and had
>difficulty controlling the lousy looking welds. Regular brazing rod did
>the same thing.
>Now, i've had trouble brazing this stuff with an OA torch using the
>original material as filler too. So i ended up using some flux coated
>brazing rod that runs at a lower temperature to make the repair with O/A.
>What am i doing wrong here? pf
> > -------------------------------
> > If it ain't forged
> > it ain't real.
> > Wrought iron is.
> > The FrostWorks
> >
> > Meadow Lakes, AK.
> >
> >
> > From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer"
> > <artgawk at thegrid.net>
> >
> >
> >
> >> Unfortunately, it mashes across the high points and
> >> i'd have to try to
> >> grind them off which would take way too long Andy.
> >> Good idea though.
> >> The most problematical one will be the cuttlefish
> >> buckle for a marine
> >> bio guy. They have really raised bulging eyes right
> >> next to the delicate
> >> tentacles. Sweating that one. Thinking about wrapping
> >> the tentacles in
> >> wet rags before spot heating with the torch. Then
> >> working over soaked
> >> wood with holes drilled to sink the eyes into. It's
> >> so easy to blow a
> >> piece right at the end! I'm good at that.
> >>
> >
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