Brass Knuckles (STEEL)
#12
Will I need a special wire?
thanks
#14
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 .
#16
+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.
#17
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!
#18
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.
#19
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 .
#20
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.
they are easy enough to cut out yourself unless we are talking cutting them from half inch stainless or such.