Rubbing strips for buckets ?ive asked this before but I’m still after some inconel sheet for playing about with. Anyone know a supplier of small quantities?
Last time I bought some it came from here, which is fairly local to me, https://proformancemetals.co.uk/ it was incoloy actually rather than inconel, not cheap either.
Just TIG practice mate, Inconel is too dear for rubbing strips, much cheaper methods - FCW hardfacing wire being one.Rubbing strips for buckets ?
From what I remember, and its been a while its not really much different to tigging stainless, big gas lens or a shoe and flood the back if there is any risk of burn through,
Plasma can interfere with it as well if the oxides from the cut ain’t completely removed.I wanted to do some testing as a guy is reporting loads of issues I’ve not come across before And the welds look carp. It could be he is water jet cutting the material. And the water jet is not dedicated to exotics.
Its sold in bar form for the purpose, needs preheat with torchJust TIG practice mate, Inconel is too dear for rubbing strips, much cheaper methods - FCW hardfacing wire being one.
I /think/ I have some filler rod suitable if you'd like some Brad. It was bought as something else but it looks like it's Inconel of some sort:
I can’t say I’ve ever heard of that to be honest mate and google turns up nothing except results from a machining viewpoint.Its sold in bar form for the purpose, needs preheat with torch
I wanted to do some testing as a guy is reporting loads of issues I’ve not come across before And the welds look carp. It could be he is water jet cutting the material. And the water jet is not dedicated to exotics.
got to purge the back of the joint or it will pull oxides into the pool clean and degrease joint and filler wire 625 most common grade although was on a job that used 812
wire drawn from a solid billet gaffer wouldnt let us cut wires in half because if we wasted it there was no more to be had
If you used it to purge an vessel. Thing is you can get colour on exotics at below 20ppm of oxygen so you need one of the very expensive HFT PurgeEye monitors or similar.Has he checked the Argon supply for leaks? I’ve just replaced the power/gas lead on my set. Could never get 100% tint free welds. Didnt think I had air been sucked in, [I bubble check the joints when I change bottles] but clearly I had.
Would an oxygen meter detect the ‘air’ in the argon flow at the torch head?
If you used it to purge an vessel. Thing is you can get colour on exotics at below 20ppm of oxygen so you need one of the very expensive HFT PurgeEye monitors or similar.