Welding Tips and Tricks

Hi all.
I am under instruction from my better half to repair a favorite kitchen utensil.
It is stainless steel but highly magnetic. Any ideas what grade of staino this might be and is 316 wire doable?
I thought I should double check before I do something that would upset the missus.
Thanks.

Stuff like that is usually 18/8 stainless. Hit it with some 309. No worries. Stainless properties wont come in to play on that thing. Hence the uneducated saying "its stainless mate"

Mick

Thanks Mick.
My 309 wire is 2.4mm so I used the 316 wire I have in 1.6mm. Welded up OK once I figured the amps. The flip blade is like 0.4mm against the handle bar which is like 4mm.

I thought the broken solid rivet might have been aluminium since it was peined flat so I first tried to build it up with some 5356 - man it just exploded and turned the 3mm rivet hole into a 6mm black hole which I had to clean up and fill in as well. No complaints from the missus.

yep, alum rivits. i ditched them and tig blob top and bottom of a spoon handle. I always start at super low amps for that ever since i blew through one of my mums sauce pans and totally wrecked it.

That highly magnetic spatula was probably a 400 series, but no worries. It ain't pipe... 308, 309 or 316 will hold just fine for even Ostrich eggs over-easy.

Steve S