Re: Re: Re: Is Gas Welding Practical?

Posted by T_Bone on January 23, 2002 at 14:30:34 from (207.173.149.170):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Is Gas Welding Practical? posted by Branden on January 23, 2002 at 09:08:27:

Out of the mouth of babe's shall the truth be known!!!
Sounds like someone should have listened to grampa more closely!!!

Hi Branden,
Your post contains several mistakes and this "old timer" is here to set you straight.

Branden: "Way, way too much heat input"
You need to return to welding therory 101 and read some more on heat fusion. "Any" welding process takes the same amount of BTU's for complete metal fusion to occur.

Branden: "weakens base material"
You need to quote the book you read this statement out of as there's no basis of fact on this statement but the exact opposite is true.

Branden: "takes too long". Well now, lets do a 1" certified plate test With me using oxy/act and you can pick your manual arc welding method and we'll coin toss for 2F, 3F, 4F, 5G or 6G and will be based on time and a bend test to AWS spec's. You notice I didn't say 1F as I didn't want to take advantage of you.
Since I'm retired and do a fare amount of travling I'll stop by your area and we'll go to a local VO-tech school for the testing. Gees we could make it interesting and say maybe looser buys dinner and lets say will dinner will be, you guessed it, T-Bone's.

Branden: "they swear by anything or process they were raised on"
Now thats the first correct statement you made. I guess to be fare before you accept my T-Bone dinner(I like mine rare) challange, I started off gas welding then took 35 weld certification tests in SMAW, GTAW, GMAW and SAW and failed 1/3 of one 3/8" plate test of the 35 tests, then went on to be a AWS CWI(Certified Weld Inspector) and then a Refrigeration Engineer.
"I believe the ball is in your park"

Hi Mike,

Mike: "To weld 1/4 stock with gas will take a long time and will exceed the draw rate on all but the largest bottles!"

T_Bone: To gas weld any thickness of plate/pipe will not exceed the draw rate of any size acetylene cylinder. A Victor Model 100 torch is rated to cut 3" plate and unlimited thickness for gas welding. The Victor 100 is the smallest torch Victor makes.

Mike I'll make the same challange to you as I made to Branden as far as time it takes to gas weld.

T_Bone

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