Bill Edwards
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Thanks, that's handy to know if I ever come across a piece which appears too hard to drill/cut if the color isn't of concern. Rarely is in farm repair jobs!
At a previous job a few years ago, I used to have a recurring job to do every so often, welding a cast steel towing eye, to a 10mm thick Mild Steel plate.
Stick welding I found was a good way of doing it, used stainless rods not sure what grade though and worked very well, once it was all warmed up a bit with a propane torch.
Boss didnt like it one bit though, he was one of these "everything MUST be mig welded..... time is money!!!!" types.
Mig welding it used to give a real ropey looking weld, with what looked like a lot of porosity in it, that half the time would crack as it cooled.
One remedy i found after a bit of experimenting, was to run a hot bead of weld around the casting where it would be welded to the plate, before tacking together if that makes sense, to then tack it onto the plate and weld in two passes, at quite a hot setting although not spray transfer.
Stood up to the plate being stitch welded to the leg of a bench and then the eye being belted with a sledge hammer anyway lol