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

 

http://www.acestainless.com/

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

well i can say that those elbows sucked ***, 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.

 

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.

 

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.