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Bill Noble[_3_] Bill Noble[_3_] is offline
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Default Welding on rail road spikes

you probably don't have enough current to make the weld - others may be more
exact, I'd probably weld at 130 to 150 amps minimum, maybe more depending on
what I was doing with the spikes


"redalpha" wrote in message
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I am just a weekend welder and I can not seem to make my welds stick
to these spikes. I have a low end stick welder unit I bough for 150.00
from Northern Tool. Any ideas?

Also I have a "Bensomatic" oxy torch for heating rebar to bend and
form and Was thinking about using it to try to gas weld these
spikes... would that be better?

Thanks for the help



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