[TheForge] Metal working problem...again

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Thanks Larry:
I was using argon and ended up using flux when i resorted to O/A. 
Thought about using flux for the TIG, But i'd wire brushed the metal 
totally at the joint and thought the argon would cover it. Will try with 
flux next time.

Larry Brown wrote:
> 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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