are black steel weld els the same as mild steel
 

exactly what the title says, no one around my area sells "mild steel weld els", but at home depot i found "black steel" elbows that look exactly the same. the guy told me that the black is just a paint that they put on there to keep it from rusting and that the metal was cold rolled mild steel.
any one ever try these or should i just buy some from acestainless

Re: are black steel weld els the same as mild steel
 

http://www.acestainless.com/

http://store.racing-solutions.org/

Re: are black steel weld els the same as mild steel
 

^^^ holy ------- hot avatar... who is that?

Re: are black steel weld els the same as mild steel
 

everyone asks and i honestly dont know. i just saw titties poppin out and was thinking that would be a better avatar then my ugly mug.

Re: are black steel weld els the same as mild steel
 

HD ---- is just cast steel, if not cast iron. Its not so much paint, its an light anti-rust coating.

I can say it welds nicely, I made a mani from their 2" black pipe and elbows, and with my awsome MIG'ing skillz its still holding the T3 turbo in its topmount config 8 months later. No cracks anywhere. Can't beat a $7 manifold :1

Re: are black steel weld els the same as mild steel
 

i'm going to have go to HD and check this ---- out. Did you find it with the straight pipe?

Re: are black steel weld els the same as mild steel
 

ive never seen butt weld els at home depot, only threaded ----.

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well i can say that those elbows sucked ass, i started by cleaning them off and then putting some sopt welds around where i was welding and as the were cooling they just cracked right in half. at first i was using 100amps but that wasnt getting the job done so i upped it to about 175 and fused away, i got nice penetration all the way through but as soon as i let the whole thing cool it just cracked right down the center of the weld and was easily broken apart.

Re: are black steel weld els the same as mild steel
 

Weld els are the way to go. Got mine at Mcmastercarr.com, but I may check into the sponsers sites as it looks like they might be cheaper and easier to locate on their page. :S

Re: are black steel weld els the same as mild steel
 

well i got lucky and one of the plumbing supply warehouses in madison can get them for me for $5 a pop, pretty sweet deal.