Any idea how old the spikes are?
I once tried to weld some RR spikes that were so old they were
produced when most metal items were made of forged steel.
If I welded one to something it would break off because of the
laminated structure of the steel.
I had a hard time cutting them with an OA torch because the cut kept
getting interrupted by the laminations.
Engineman


On Dec 30, 9:04�am, Vernon wrote:
On Dec 30, 11:50�am, "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas wrote:





"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