RainLover wrote:

Any suggestions on keeping this sculpture from twisting into a knot
when I weld it up?

I've seen a report recently of a company welding broken/worn bells. Huge
old bells from churches.
They have built an "oven" and heated it up in there for 24 hours (gas
flame), made a small opening, welded with O/A, closed the opening and
let it cool down slowly for several days.
Now to the "oven", the "hi-tech" part of the process: Go get some wire
mesh, build some kind of cylinder/dome/shape of it and wrap the whole
thing with rock wool. Looked uggly. But they did the job that way for
generations. And if a bell doesnt suffer*) and sounds like new ...


*) All this happened in Germany. You have to know that church bells
aren't just bells, but _church_ bells. There are specialy trained people
from the church that come with tuning forks, stopwatches, whatever and
test the bell all over.


HTH,
Nick
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