If you like all the color on stainless welds...
01-11-2006, 03:02 PM
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Re: If you like all the color on stainless welds...
Originally Posted by slappynuts
The color of the weld can be a pretty good indicator of the amount of heat it was welded with.
01-11-2006, 07:13 PM
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Re: If you like all the color on stainless welds...
Originally Posted by myshtern
I wish you were around at Honda Tech to tell those exhaust ricers that the pretty colors dont say anything about strength.
Originally Posted by Stealthmode
Originally Posted by slappynuts
The color of the weld can be a pretty good indicator of the amount of heat it was welded with.
01-11-2006, 08:10 PM
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Re: If you like all the color on stainless welds...
I know that color welds are the first to oxidize but it is what sells...
It is really easy for anybody to weld something that is pure junk and hit it with a wire wheel and by the book it looks great, but most people
(non fabricators/consumers) consider a weld with the color to be a better quality weld. I know for a fact that the weld that has color will rust while if you wire wheel it all to the natural color (or polish it to a crome appearance
) that it will last much longer without rusting.
Many say stainless won't rust but I have personally seen some of mine, and many others (full race) rust. The thing however that stainless wont rust all the way through like mild steel will, iinstead it gets a very fine layer of rust on the surface.
-James
It is really easy for anybody to weld something that is pure junk and hit it with a wire wheel and by the book it looks great, but most people
(non fabricators/consumers) consider a weld with the color to be a better quality weld. I know for a fact that the weld that has color will rust while if you wire wheel it all to the natural color (or polish it to a crome appearance
) that it will last much longer without rusting.Many say stainless won't rust but I have personally seen some of mine, and many others (full race) rust. The thing however that stainless wont rust all the way through like mild steel will, iinstead it gets a very fine layer of rust on the surface.
-James
01-11-2006, 10:19 PM
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Re: If you like all the color on stainless welds...
Originally Posted by Engloid
---- them....talk the guys into leaving, or telling the admin that they want Luke's ----- *** banned and me unbanned. If they unbanned me and didn't ban him, I'd probably just cuss him when I got back anyway.
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01-12-2006, 02:23 AM
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Re: If you like all the color on stainless welds...
HEY Engloid!!! Ya miss me? LOL
I did sanitary tubing for about 3 years. Infact we did the Oro wheat bakery in So San Fran.We put in 3 miles of 2" 316L.Anyway someone that knows a little about welding stainless can look at a weld and tell you how good it is.The outside color really doesn't mean much.Unless its burnt up.But you can get different colors by pulling the tungsten out far or pushing it up inside.Its hard to say what is the best. by talking about it .You have to show someone.
Engloid are you still banned from HT?
Here is a stainless header that the welds havn't been cleaned or polished.LOL
I did sanitary tubing for about 3 years. Infact we did the Oro wheat bakery in So San Fran.We put in 3 miles of 2" 316L.Anyway someone that knows a little about welding stainless can look at a weld and tell you how good it is.The outside color really doesn't mean much.Unless its burnt up.But you can get different colors by pulling the tungsten out far or pushing it up inside.Its hard to say what is the best. by talking about it .You have to show someone.
Engloid are you still banned from HT?
Here is a stainless header that the welds havn't been cleaned or polished.LOL
01-12-2006, 09:32 AM
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Re: If you like all the color on stainless welds...
Yah really the best welds will have zero color at all, but you either have to run mad argon to do that or do them in a purge cabnet
Unfortunatly my customers dont pay enough for me to justify an extra $30 of argon per manifold
-James
Unfortunatly my customers dont pay enough for me to justify an extra $30 of argon per manifold
-James
01-12-2006, 10:13 AM
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Re: If you like all the color on stainless welds...
Originally Posted by RMF Headers
HEY Engloid!!! Ya miss me? LOL
I did sanitary tubing for about 3 years. Infact we did the Oro wheat bakery in So San Fran.We put in 3 miles of 2" 316L.Anyway someone that knows a little about welding stainless can look at a weld and tell you how good it is.The outside color really doesn't mean much.Unless its burnt up.But you can get different colors by pulling the tungsten out far or pushing it up inside.Its hard to say what is the best. by talking about it .You have to show someone.
Engloid are you still banned from HT?
Here is a stainless header that the welds havn't been cleaned or polished.LOL
I did sanitary tubing for about 3 years. Infact we did the Oro wheat bakery in So San Fran.We put in 3 miles of 2" 316L.Anyway someone that knows a little about welding stainless can look at a weld and tell you how good it is.The outside color really doesn't mean much.Unless its burnt up.But you can get different colors by pulling the tungsten out far or pushing it up inside.Its hard to say what is the best. by talking about it .You have to show someone.
Engloid are you still banned from HT?
Here is a stainless header that the welds havn't been cleaned or polished.LOL
