There has been a lot of interest in welding and purchasing welders lately. I asked @Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith if we can add a master welding thread to the stickies and he said that we could. I have been involved in welding for around 20 or so years. I was a welder with certs in GMAW, SMAW, FCAW AND GTAW or MIG, Stick, Flux Core and TIG. I welded aluminum for years and then got into field welding stick steel and then tig steel and a little bit of inconel. I became a welding inspector and taught welding at Bellingham Tech in Washington state. It was a good school and I wished that I could have kept with it because I have never learned more than when I was teaching and I enjoyed it. Hopefully I have gained enough knowledge through that that something will be useful and I am going to save several slots to fill out different categories. I am going to post a second thread for questions so that we can leave this thread clean enough to find what we are looking for. I know a lot if other guys here have some very good experience and hopefully they can fill in my knowledge gaps. I want to keep this to a clean outline so I am asking that 1. Please title your post about the subject that you are sharing and 2. Please be able to backup your post with research or professional standards. I don't want to be stuffy about this and if you just have a great tip for fitting or something else that could be useful feel free to post but if it is a random opinion from some old timer that you talked to and you can't explain why it works please don't post it. If it is a good tip but you don't know why it works or helps then post it on the questions thread and we will try to figure it out and then add it. I have a TIG/ Stick unit and will try any experiments that I can for you and maybe others can help. I have access to most welding codes and can give you the code answer if you think that helps. I know we have guys here who have welded just about everything and they should be able to fill in what they know. Perhaps @Larrin could help us with material science and anything else that he is willing. As knife makers there can be a need to weld martensitic steels or titanium and I don't have that experience so I'm hoping that others can help with that. If we do a nice job with this we can have a nice welding manual for knife makers. Only for the reason that I'm hoping that this can last, things such as questions or questionable answers may be moved to the questions thread at least until we can find a answer or prove them. Thanks for understanding and thanks in advance for all of your help. I will try to add to this every day or so. I'm sure that I will be the one who learns more than anyone else so thank you for that.
I also want to add that I will do my best to tie in articles from industrial trade journals books or publications but I'm sure it won't be perfect and I am not a writer so take everything you hear from a welder with at least a shaker of salt.
I'm going to try to organize this the best as possible so I will start with a overview of a subject and as I have time and as questions come up I will add to the subject. Please be patient with me welding is a passion but I can't say that writing is. I may move some info around so as to make it as easy as possible to reference. Please reply to the questions thread if you guys would like things broke down by category of subject or if you would like each processes broken down from start to finish including what type of power sources are need and techniques, technology, code and technical items even if they repeat in other areas.
I would love to have volunteers for information that I do not have personal experience with. If anyone want to do that you can reply to the question thread or call or text me at 360.305.6225. Here are the current list of subjects that I have not had personal experience with. There are probably more and I will add them.
1. Forge welding
2. Welding martensitic steels
3. Welding copper alloys.
4. Welding Titanium
5. Brazing and soldering ( I have some experience)
6. Welding nickel alloys ( I have some experience)
I also want to add that I will do my best to tie in articles from industrial trade journals books or publications but I'm sure it won't be perfect and I am not a writer so take everything you hear from a welder with at least a shaker of salt.
I'm going to try to organize this the best as possible so I will start with a overview of a subject and as I have time and as questions come up I will add to the subject. Please be patient with me welding is a passion but I can't say that writing is. I may move some info around so as to make it as easy as possible to reference. Please reply to the questions thread if you guys would like things broke down by category of subject or if you would like each processes broken down from start to finish including what type of power sources are need and techniques, technology, code and technical items even if they repeat in other areas.
I would love to have volunteers for information that I do not have personal experience with. If anyone want to do that you can reply to the question thread or call or text me at 360.305.6225. Here are the current list of subjects that I have not had personal experience with. There are probably more and I will add them.
1. Forge welding
2. Welding martensitic steels
3. Welding copper alloys.
4. Welding Titanium
5. Brazing and soldering ( I have some experience)
6. Welding nickel alloys ( I have some experience)
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