Welding Corten steel
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Welding Corten steel
Simple question. Is it standard mild steel wire and gas that is used to weld Corten?
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Another water seperator I found unused on a shelf
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Hypertherm Powermax 45
CandCNC Bladerunner IV
Some air dryer off the internet
Another water seperator I found unused on a shelf
Refrigerated air dryer
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Re: Welding Corten steel
Call your welding supplier, we did a large Cor-Ten job and bought Cor-Ten welding wire, It will keep the Cor-Ten characteristics in the weld joint. I'll post pics when I locate them....... It was industrial swings that were specked out by the customer...SERIOUS DESIGN OVERKILL
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Re: Welding Corten steel
Found it, Like I said, serious overkill, these should last a generation or two...!!!!!!
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Re: Welding Corten steel
As I understand, as long as you are doing a single weld root pass the steel should combine and mirror the characteristics of the corten.bhamer62 wrote:Call your welding supplier, we did a large Cor-Ten job and bought Cor-Ten welding wire, It will keep the Cor-Ten characteristics in the weld joint. I'll post pics when I locate them....... It was industrial swings that were specked out by the customer...SERIOUS DESIGN OVERKILL
I have welded dozens of things to Corten with straight mig wire and no issues.
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Re: Welding Corten steel
That may very well be the case, you can certainly use standard MIG wire with no issues or minimal effect in many applications. In this particular case, the dwg had an engineers stamp on it and required certs.....what they want they get....lol I'm not interested in grinding out welds.....
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Re: Welding Corten steel
Thank you all. I will save some cash and just go with standard and see how it goes. Otherwise, a quick wire change isn’t too hard.
Home built 3400 x 1400mm (11 and a bit X a bit over 4.5 feet)
Hypertherm Powermax 45
CandCNC Bladerunner IV
Some air dryer off the internet
Another water seperator I found unused on a shelf
Refrigerated air dryer
Hypertherm Powermax 45
CandCNC Bladerunner IV
Some air dryer off the internet
Another water seperator I found unused on a shelf
Refrigerated air dryer