Re: More Cage Advice
we need to have another event, STAT. there is a lot of welding dick being swung around in here. oy.
Raaaar! Welding! Raaaar!
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we need to have another event, STAT. there is a lot of welding dick being swung around in here. oy.
Raaaar! Welding! Raaaar!
mackwagon wrote:I wanna start arguing!!!
Wow, I never said that. So you had to edit my words to make your point. Interesting.
Did you really just bring up certified welders? :rolls eyes: I don't think anyone who has ever brought that up realizes that you are only certified to weld one thickness of one type of metal per certification. /rant. Know what you're talking about if you're going to put up a lame attempt to start an argument and be condescending.
Mackwa - nope, not certified - I'm the guy that gets asked to cut the welds apart at my local CC - and usually say F-NO unless you-all bring the new saw-blade (that heat-stress riser AND the type of rod used can kill a blade in seconds)!
And as to strength-of-weld and quality as seen from photos, yeah, what Mackwa said.
And-and, if you had a welder big enough to do single-pass on bridges, MAN that would trump all of you guys' welders combined and multiplied like welding bunnies!
(structural certified = three materials, same thickness, Stick weld, classes start out with single-pass and develop into multi-pass needed to pass cert... Mig and Tig are different and riders on basic structural, or can be separate and specific. Tube is yet another cert. Chro-Mo and tube is yet another... and so on...)
Also stacking weld on top of weld on top of weld does not make it stronger.
That is exactly how you weld a thick piece of metal. You groove each piece and lay a root bead and a face bead. Or back bead and weld reinforcement as this image calls them:
It's a little more than just "stacking weld on top of weld" but it's also structurally sound and industry standard practice.
VKZ24 wrote:Also stacking weld on top of weld on top of weld does not make it stronger.
That is exactly how you weld a thick piece of metal. You groove each piece and lay a root bead and a face bead. Or back bead and weld reinforcement as this image calls them:
I know this. We aren't talking about a 1/2" plate here that requires beveled edges and mutiple passes. If you can't get proper penetration on 1/8" plate in a single pass, then 3 more passes won't help.
Okay, sorry, just makin' sure. :-)
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