Buter
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Hello chaperoonies
I've got some metal left over from the last project and I'm playing around with it. It's 1.6mm ms and I've done all I can think of to stop it from getting wiggly after welding and not had as much success as I would have hoped.
I tig'd 2 big pieces (400x480) along the long side and she warped a little bit even though the welds are fine, I skip stitched them, the pieces were clamped down and the HAZ was kept as small as I could have expected. Worse off are the 2m pieces that are only 50mm wide. I welded them up and just couldn't keep them from moving.
So what do I do next time to keep the distortion down? What can I do now to make the pieces I have already welded up behave a bit better?
I'm new to thin metal so any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers
Buter
I've got some metal left over from the last project and I'm playing around with it. It's 1.6mm ms and I've done all I can think of to stop it from getting wiggly after welding and not had as much success as I would have hoped.
I tig'd 2 big pieces (400x480) along the long side and she warped a little bit even though the welds are fine, I skip stitched them, the pieces were clamped down and the HAZ was kept as small as I could have expected. Worse off are the 2m pieces that are only 50mm wide. I welded them up and just couldn't keep them from moving.
So what do I do next time to keep the distortion down? What can I do now to make the pieces I have already welded up behave a bit better?
I'm new to thin metal so any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers
Buter
