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Old 06-23-2014, 01:48 PM
David Gardiner David Gardiner is offline
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This is just plain silly......

Most of us learn without the aid of hands on instruction. We need to learn from our mistakes, by travelling too fast and getting insufficient penetration, and by travelling too slowly and blowing holes (amongst other errors). Eventually, hopefully, we can live between those two extremes.

Personally, I still blow the occasional hole in steel, let alone aluminum!

I think David, you're living in Fairy land if you think the average guy doesn't need to know how to fix his screw ups, and can just learn to "weld properly in the first place"



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I have spent more than an hour trying to scan a section of a book listing proper settings for gas welding pressures as set out by BOC but I could not get it clear enough to upload and post. I thought it might help people. I guess I have wasted my time seeing as I am living in "Fairy Land".

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Good grief....... Grow up.
I used your phrase and I should grow up?

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Old 06-23-2014, 01:53 PM
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Hi Bill, I will scan and post the information if I can manage to get a clear enough version.

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Old 06-23-2014, 02:15 PM
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David, just shoot a pic with your cam it might work?!
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Old 06-23-2014, 02:23 PM
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Good idea Per. I will try it asap.

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Old 06-26-2014, 08:10 AM
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Thanks Bill, Kent and David. I'm about to start shaping my ally panels for my Jag and have never gas welded ally before. So, this is all good timing for me. I still blow holes occasionaly in 1mm steel, fixing those are no problem.

Would planishing the excess ally that gathers around the hole, in order to make the hole smaller, be a good idea?
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Old 06-26-2014, 08:14 AM
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Planishing it would only create thickness and make it more difficult to finish evenly. I would do as Kent says, and flow the metal back together.
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Old 06-26-2014, 10:08 AM
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Thanks Bill, Kent and David. I'm about to start shaping my ally panels for my Jag and have never gas welded ally before. So, this is all good timing for me. I still blow holes occasionaly in 1mm steel, fixing those are no problem.

Would planishing the excess ally that gathers around the hole, in order to make the hole smaller, be a good idea?
That is good practice, Mike.

Since none of the metal has been lost just clean off the flux, bat the metal flat around the hole to close it up and weld it on through.
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