acetylener/oxygen welding
 

acetylener/oxygen welding

does any one here use one for all there welding on there turbo kit

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why would you want to? It's a pain in the ass to use, especially when you have a mig welder handy ;)

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yeah, i've done it lots. you can do a lot of cool ---- with a torch. what are you wondering about it?

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i dunno if anyone actually uses oxy-acetelyne(sp?) to weld up a manifold. you can make it look good. keeping it from warping may be a problem.

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Can you weld aluminum using that ----? Thoes are the little shitty welding/cutting kits that come with the 2 bottles right?

if it does aluminum, i'd try it out I guess.

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I've never welded anything with it, but I HAVE CUT THE ---- OUT OF SOME METAL WITH IT. Why do you ask?

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I'd like to know if it weld aluminum, because it will be a long time before I can afford a miller Tig, this way if it does weld aluminum, I can make this and that for myself.

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I believe he's asking because he doesn't want to use a welder that you have to plug in. His electrical is very old in his house, and he keeps blowing fuses and ---- with a MIG welder. A torch would be a good thing to use if this is your case link, but I would try to find somebody locally that would be willing to show you a few pointers. Maybe some people on here could at least get you started with the basics.

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thanks thats the exact problem i have is the house but thank u i mine and a panel install in the shed for a 120 with like a 100amp fuse and all i dont know

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Put in a breaker box and do away with the fuses- at least for your 220.

just pull power from where your fuse box gets it, and run a big ass wire to a small breaker box. Then you can add more breakers as needed. It would be much safer that way (All new wiring instead of trying to run big power through old wiring and a fusebox), and you could leave the rest of your house on the fuse box.

I had to run an extra box at my house like that when I put in my compressor. I put in a bunch of smaller breaker in also that came in handy when it was time to add llights to my basement. you tend to always need to expand with wiring, so might as well expand only once.

Just make sure you have the power turned off when you hook up the main power line, that ----'ll kill.

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no ----

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I don't know if you can weld aluminum with it but I know you can braze it. I have a few pacs of Alum. Brazing rods n my shop.


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no, aluminum simply melts. i know ive tried it. it pops ike crazy and motlen aluminum falls on your foot and burns through your shoe. dont try it. steel is the best. it also has to be pretty thick too.

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Finally, the info I was looking for, Thanks Kain.

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Well then drop the heat. I've done it too, but you would want to build anything using it. Mostly just usable for leak repairs.

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i do believe there is a certian guy on this board with a PIMP turbo truck that used this method to weld his manifold or whatnots with the help of a coat hanger.

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Indeed so, Cadracer did his whole turbo manifold with coat-hanger Oxy/Act welding. I just patched up a muffler tonite doing it.. it really makes you feel "backyardish"

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Pretty sure you can weld aluminum with a oxy setup. Oxy and tig welding are pretty much the same thing in ways.
The problem you had was probably not cleaning the aluminum good enough. The same exact thing will happen with a tig welder. Before aluminum can be welded you have to clean the surface with a stainless brush or rough 3m pad that has never been on anything but aluminum. Then it needs to also be cleaned with acetone. When aluminum sits out it gots a couting of aluminum oxide on the outside, aluminum oxide melts at around 3 times the temp of aluminum. If you don't get it off the inside will melt before the outer skin. Then when you finally get the outside to pool the inside will just poor out.

Later
Randy

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So you can weld aluminum with this stuff? Sweet.

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It can be done, but it is even harder than doing it with a tig. And using a tig on aluminum isn't the easiest.

Later
Randy

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arc 4 life ;D

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Yeah, and now that I actually looked at the price for this stuff, I'm better off getting a used Mig, I can get the argon gas from my dads work and aluminum wire and have my own Tig.