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by budgaugh66
Sat Aug 24, 2013 5:50 pm
Forum: Mig and Flux Core - gas metal arc welding & flux cored arc welding
Topic: Rail car industry welding and Ring welds
Replies: 5
Views: 878

Re: Rail car industry welding and Ring welds

Interesting.. we use the MIG pulse process and the vast majority of the time when we do ring welds we trigger weld them in instead of running a continous bead one because we mainly weld on stainless a 1/4" and under and stainless to carbon. the second reason we mostly triiger is because the wel...
by budgaugh66
Sat Aug 24, 2013 3:11 pm
Forum: Mig and Flux Core - gas metal arc welding & flux cored arc welding
Topic: Rail car industry welding and Ring welds
Replies: 5
Views: 878

Rail car industry welding and Ring welds

I currently work at a place that is working on a contract building passenger cars for amtrak.. the shells are made entirely out of stainless steel. 304, 301 1/4 hard and 301 1/2 hard. The ends of the underframe called the headstocks and the lifting lugs are made of mild steel.. we do a lot of ring w...
by budgaugh66
Sat Aug 24, 2013 2:57 pm
Forum: Mig and Flux Core - gas metal arc welding & flux cored arc welding
Topic: DOES anyone weld with fluxcore
Replies: 18
Views: 4066

Re: DOES anyone weld with fluxcore

I dont where i currently work but used to weld with esab dual shield 1/16" and .045" wire alot. also ran 316 stainless core wire which doesnt run as smooth but puts down a nice looking bead when its all said and done. This was for a place that built surface condensers. pressure vessel indu...