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John Buchtenkirch 12-19-2016 02:41 AM

Boron steel ???
 
Kind of a question :confused: for guys still working in our sister trade, the auto body business. I ran into a body shop owner I used to do frame and heavy uni-body work for. He was telling me the boron steel they are using in the newer uni-body cars cannot be mig welded, if you do the area around the plug welds will crack. I have another friend in the collision trade that took the classes and is a ICAR certified welder. He claims when he took the ICAR classes there was no mention of this ban on mig welding boron steel. Can anyone shed some light on this subject :confused: ? ~ John Buchtenkirch

neilb 12-19-2016 03:30 AM

mig bronze welding is fine, i have mig (steel) welded boron before and the weld is really dirty looking. for anyone who has welded a ford sierra front x member you'll know what i mean!

its a very hard steel but only found in areas now that you'd never be welding (bumper reinforces, roof braces, and the odd inner 'b' pillar)

there are lots of areas of high carbon steel which is not the same as BORON in late model cars nowadays

we have a diagram at work of a 204 c class merc and what steels are used in it, i'll take a picture tomorrow

bbuford 12-22-2016 08:07 PM

Cars have been using lots of high strength (for decades) and ultra high strength steel more recently. The new Honda Accord has the door opening/rocker made with a newer version of boron with like a 150MPA rating which is twice as stiff as the older part. Boron is used a lot more than bumper reinforcements and bolt on parts. F150s had like 17 different alloys used in the body before they switched to Aluminum. I have seen several jobs where guys that didn't know welded boron parts with the mig wire and the parts broke apart right around the weld. The body shops need to keep up to date with changes and if a drill bit just polishes the material you maybe looking at a boron part.

stevepcs 01-01-2017 12:24 AM

Boron
 
We bought Weilander and Schill welders. One is a resistance spot welder which actually is liquid cooled and the other is a inverter mig with silicon bronze wire in it. I'm sure other manufactures have equiptment that will do the welding too.
Removing the spot welds are a killer. If anybody knows a easy way to mill those spot welds I'd like to know. When we got to do it they kill man and tooling.

neilb 01-01-2017 02:52 AM

hi stevepcs, there is a specialist spot weld drill to drill them out in boron and uhss steel. they are about 80$ aud from memory they are 3 flute instead of the normal 2 flute drill bits

neilb 01-01-2017 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by bbuford (Post 131870)
Cars have been using lots of high strength (for decades) and ultra high strength steel more recently. The new Honda Accord has the door opening/rocker made with a newer version of boron with like a 150MPA rating which is twice as stiff as the older part. Boron is used a lot more than bumper reinforcements and bolt on parts. F150s had like 17 different alloys used in the body before they switched to Aluminum. I have seen several jobs where guys that didn't know welded boron parts with the mig wire and the parts broke apart right around the weld. The body shops need to keep up to date with changes and if a drill bit just polishes the material you maybe looking at a boron part.

never done any US built cars new or old! Honda are ahead of plenty of manufacturers with materials and the way they are used both steels and aluminium. Mercedes (which i only work on) have a welded join across the 'c' pillar where as BMW (used to work for) have a bonded joint with a re-enforcing plate bonded behind strengthening the join. but yet both are German built, lots of glue used on both...

billfunk29 01-01-2017 12:13 PM

Heat sensitive boron steel
 
Not only is welding difficult with Boron steel, it is more heat sensitive. No more heat and beat. E-coat is used instead of galvanizing because even the heat of galvanizing is a problem.

And I was all ready to chop the top on my ford focus. Might have to rethink that.:(

KAD 01-01-2017 04:41 PM

Boron Steel repair
 
This is a link to the I-CAR Repairability Technical Support page on how to deal with Boron Steel in automotive repair. It includes cutting and welding etc.



https://rts.i-car.com/collision-repa...211&Itemid=596

scranm 01-01-2017 09:09 PM

I believe they are going to glue, silicon bronze, and spot welds. I would avoid welding on boron steel because of the high carbon content.


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