[s-cars] high flow race cats?
brian hoeft
surlyq at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 15:24:10 EDT 2005
ive also learned that you are able to mig weld stainless but that it changes
the chemical composition of the metal and is (as from the general
description) no longer 'stainless' steel.... and as a side note, i was also
told that stainless is a bit misunderstood by name.. its not stain proof as
i thought, it is truly stain less as in: stains less, than other types of
steel, then stains even less as you go up the T-scale
no metallurgist, brian
On 9/13/05, Steve Powers <sbpowers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Brian -
>
> > ...i have myself, friends and a mig welder, but tig welding is the only
> > acceptable option for stainless, correct?
> > thanks, -brian
>
> I researched it for some stainless railing work I'm doing. Lots of
> little spot welding which is a pain with tig because it takes so much
> time. what I found out is that you can weld stainless with mig, but it
> takes a non-standard gas. (in addition to the correct wire size, feed
> rate, yadda, yadda)
>
> Steve Powers
>
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