Brass Knuckles (STEEL)
#21
Welding like metals is always preferred but if no choice, you can mix depending on the metals.
Do I know all about welding... I wish. Just like most things, there are many opinions on how to do things. For me, I have been doing it for a living for over 25 years. I do custom fab and welding, commercial, industrial and a little residential..... and still learning.
Good luck and I am sure they will turn out great!
#22
Welding like metals is always preferred but if no choice, you can mix depending on the metals.
Do I know all about welding... I wish. Just like most things, there are many opinions on how to do things. For me, I have been doing it for a living for over 25 years. I do custom fab and welding, commercial, industrial and a little residential..... and still learning.
Good luck and I am sure they will turn out great!
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I am in need of some brass knuckles in order to fabricate some highway pegs and passanger pegs. I have searhed for hours trying to locate some made of steel..(Not SS) or at least a definitive answer. I was wondering if the CHROME PLATED are steet or some sort of cast metal...
Anyone know where i can get some? Not intrested in the ready to install deals for 150$
They must be steel in order to weld them up to the mounts I will be making...
Thanks
Anyone know where i can get some? Not intrested in the ready to install deals for 150$
They must be steel in order to weld them up to the mounts I will be making...
Thanks
As far as finding some steel knuckles out there...back a few years ago we ordered a bunch from different vendors that advertised what they were selling was steel....we could not find any, everything we got was pot metal.
We cut our own now.
btw, we have not had any problem with LE on the knuckle foot pegs anywhere except Australia, and we have shipped all over the States and the world.
#24
Shoot me a PM, we can fix you up with some unfinished steel knuckles (with no tab for the mount) at a good price.
As far as finding some steel knuckles out there...back a few years ago we ordered a bunch from different vendors that advertised what they were selling was steel....we could not find any, everything we got was pot metal.
We cut our own now.
btw, we have not had any problem with LE on the knuckle foot pegs anywhere except Australia, and we have shipped all over the States and the world.
As far as finding some steel knuckles out there...back a few years ago we ordered a bunch from different vendors that advertised what they were selling was steel....we could not find any, everything we got was pot metal.
We cut our own now.
btw, we have not had any problem with LE on the knuckle foot pegs anywhere except Australia, and we have shipped all over the States and the world.
#25
Share the secret then please , every weld I've ever seen attempted on SS with a general mig and regular wire looked like hammered fuc with lots of splatter and cracking . I'm always open for an education on a better way .
#26
If you are welding SS to SS then no, I would not use reg steel mig wire. I would tig or mig with ss with a tri-mix gas. But if you must weld reg steel to SS, it will work. Standard MIG gas for steel is 75% argon, 25% co2. Run the gas around 30+ cubic ft / hour. I generally go a little hot and pulse weld with the trigger concentrating the heat on the steel and then bleed it over to the stainless. If welding two different gauges, then the heat is concentrated on the thicker and bled over to the thinner. Method/heat/duration of pulses/ arc pattern all depend on gauges and direction of travel.
You will get a lot of splatter if welding galvanized steel. I cant think of a reason you would get cracking of the weld. The only time I would get a weld cracking if it cools too fast like when you try to weld very thick aluminum without preheating it. If the weld cools too fast, thats when I see cracking.
Too many variables to list here. Hope I helped.
Last edited by kanelakos; 12-29-2011 at 05:28 PM.
#27
Shoot me a PM, we can fix you up with some unfinished steel knuckles (with no tab for the mount) at a good price.
As far as finding some steel knuckles out there...back a few years ago we ordered a bunch from different vendors that advertised what they were selling was steel....we could not find any, everything we got was pot metal.
We cut our own now.
btw, we have not had any problem with LE on the knuckle foot pegs anywhere except Australia, and we have shipped all over the States and the world.
As far as finding some steel knuckles out there...back a few years ago we ordered a bunch from different vendors that advertised what they were selling was steel....we could not find any, everything we got was pot metal.
We cut our own now.
btw, we have not had any problem with LE on the knuckle foot pegs anywhere except Australia, and we have shipped all over the States and the world.
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