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Re: Welding cylinders to fix them
« on: October 12, 2011, 10:26:14 am »
From what little I know about it, it's more the alloy of the metal .With TIG in my opinion you  have better control than with a wire welder also .

Now I've never claimed to be a good heli arc welder on aluminum mainly because I never had any reason to be .However using TIG on steel I've done stuff that would be very difficult to do with a wire welder .Such as welding a bandsaw loop back together .

Within the last six months I had a welder at work weld the cases of an 038 mag because of a hole in the oil tank .It took him about 4 different types of filler rod until he found the correct alloy to use .So on that unless a person knew going in what the alloy make up is it would be hit and miss .

Rambling on .On cast iron there are so many types,the way it's cast etc that none of it reacts quite the same .John-Deere for example is very easy to weld .Caterpillar and old Ford are very difficult .--and so it goes . However I'd much imagine that certain components of chainsaws would also present a challange .

 

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