Welding Close To Glass

[Sinister]

Planning out a little art project. Mild steel frame to hold two sheets of glass. Steel would be 1/16" thick. I need to weld in some small tabs to hold the glass in the frame. Is this a hopeless pursuit? Would it work if I used tempered glass?

 

[irondarren]

Will give a nice spatter finish to the glass , can you cover the glass in any way? Wet rag?

 

[Sinister]

I'm more concerned about the glass cracking do to the heat. I could tape it up to prevent splatter.

 

[dannyweld]

i've seen it done for large shop windows, lenghts of sq tube are used as beading (is that correct term?) they are just tacked and spoted into place to hold the glass in the frame. remember dont mig spot two close to the corner etc, you want to be able to change the pane of glass.

 

[wyn]

Would something like this be any good.


Don't know if you can get something similar over there.

 

[Sinister]

That Cold Front looks good, but seems unavailable on this side of the pond. I think I might have to go with tempered glass for this and just go for it.

 

[wyn]

I think this is from the US.

 

[Paul.]

Ive seen the glazing method that dannyweld refers to, the glazing bead is usually wide enough to keep heat away from the glass, a bit more information on the design of your frame would be useful, but have you considered soft soldering a retaining tab on either with a proper tinmans soldering iron,or a decent 100 watt electric iron,

 

[Sinister]

Still working out the design, but I think I may have something in mind that can be welded together without the glass in place.

 

[dannyweld]

i think they use either stainless or copper nickel generaly