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Cast Iron Sucess

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Tony Bradbury

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Date Posted: 11:38:59 01/28/03 Tue

Today I sucessfully welded my first cast iron piece.
I was working on a Ranch not far from where I live, and in my efforts to please my new boss, I decided to brake the workshop vice!! He was none too happy about it, as the vice was 30 years old and in 2 mins I had ruined it.
He went away to England this Saturday, so I decided to do something about the vice.... I considder myself as an above average (officially untrained) welder in most forms of welding, with 30 years experience. The vice was grey cast, so I looked about on the net and found that UTP8 "Softflow" was highly suitable for the job. The area fully cleaned on both pieces, Though the book says that it is not required when using this electrode, I heated the job with a light carborising oxy/acetylene flame, though I did not need to do so, and 90:Amps and 30 Volts later a superb job looked me in the face, I was astonished at my own aptitued! I then gave the piece a little light heat with the welding torch to make sure the temp was even and cooling not too rapid. I ground down the weld and found no porousness whatsoever. An hour later, I was using the vice. Moral: A little attention paid to the advice on the net and reading as much as you can about all forms of cast iron welding pays off. Thanks to all who work in the industry and who have found the time to instruct other in how it should be done on the net. I have just e-mailed my boss to give him the good news. I'm off to build a small oven for future ventures in cast iron (have my own welding shop at home.
Happy (belated new year to you all.. Tony Bradbury.

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