Thrashsmith
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I'm working on some poppy themed gated and railings where there are quite a few tight angles I need to weld from above to prevent water traps, I have circled a couple examples. My welding options are MIG or stick.
I was thinking of stick welding them as I definitely won't be able to get my MIG torch in close enough. Only problem is that because of the steep pitch, even if I use a 2.5mm rod, all it'll take is the slightest movement and I'll end up arcing off the "walls" first and just splurging some awful long arc mess full of entrapments.
Basically I need to fill in the very bottom of the joins to raise them up a bit. I was thinking of cutting up some little lengths of welding rod and laying them in at the very bottom, then welding over them. Does anyone else have any tips or tricks for this situation?
Ideally don't want to file the "walls" to give me a bigger gap because there's a chance that the bead I lay down won't completely fill the filed out area and I'll either have to stack up more beads than required, then file them back, or I'll be left with what looks like undercut.
I've never done any TIG welding so I don't really know it's usefulnes for this kind of situation, but if it's clearly the best route then I may whip the gates and rails down to a friend who can TIG for him to weld the tightest parts that I can't do myself without the shinanigans described above.
Cheers for any help.
I was thinking of stick welding them as I definitely won't be able to get my MIG torch in close enough. Only problem is that because of the steep pitch, even if I use a 2.5mm rod, all it'll take is the slightest movement and I'll end up arcing off the "walls" first and just splurging some awful long arc mess full of entrapments.
Basically I need to fill in the very bottom of the joins to raise them up a bit. I was thinking of cutting up some little lengths of welding rod and laying them in at the very bottom, then welding over them. Does anyone else have any tips or tricks for this situation?
Ideally don't want to file the "walls" to give me a bigger gap because there's a chance that the bead I lay down won't completely fill the filed out area and I'll either have to stack up more beads than required, then file them back, or I'll be left with what looks like undercut.
I've never done any TIG welding so I don't really know it's usefulnes for this kind of situation, but if it's clearly the best route then I may whip the gates and rails down to a friend who can TIG for him to weld the tightest parts that I can't do myself without the shinanigans described above.
Cheers for any help.
