If the SS ones are all you can find.... you can weld them to regular steel without a problem.

 

with a mig? I was under the impression that SS needed to be hotter to really bond well...

Will I need a special wire?

thanks

 

Lotta cool toys there.

 

You'd need a high end mig , SS wire and the right shielding gas and it will give you an ugly weld anyway . SS needs TIG to done right and one of the cheap inverter DC only units can do it nicely .

 

i have never welded ss to steel, but ss welds up nice. just make the whole mount out of ss.

 

+1. If you go TIG try to find at least a 2% thorinated rod or pure tungston and pure argon gas. Prep is 90% of the work. Gotta keep the work clean. Welding is the easy part.

 

thanks..I have the tig and pure argon gas...

I may go all stainless as well..just hard to buy steel/stuff when i have so much scrap laying around!

I will post up some pix when the time comes!

 

Maybe where you live - certainly not everywhere. I can own them, carry them and use them legally in KY. In fact, I went to a state government auction the other day where they were selling about a dozen sets of real brass and aluminum and maybe steel knuckles. One of the guys I work with bid on it, but lost.

 

Your good to go then , just takes some scrap to run a few practice beads with a cheap unit is all to get a feel for the settings . A higher end Tig it's like butter SS is so easy if it's got a little gauge to it and it will mate up to carbon steel very cleanly just don't cool it fast you crack your weld that way . Anything over 1/8" and it's going to take weight or stress with mis matched metals I go Arc , gets better penetration and stabilizes the metals better .

 

if you got the scrap laying around, cut them out yourself. or get you a waterjet or laser guy to do it. a few buck on his lunch break does miracles around here.
they are easy enough to cut out yourself unless we are talking cutting them from half inch stainless or such.