Welding advice needed
1948 Pontiac seat frame.
Break is precisely at a factory weld. Can only get to about 50-60% of the tubing. Have acetylene, MIG and TIG. Lousy at TIG. Best way to reinforce joint? 1/4"x1/8" splines? Form a partial sleeve (wrap while sleeve red hot) around area? Slide solid steel bar into joint an weld the junction? Thanks! All advice appreciated. Ivan Végváry a href='https://postimg.org/image/f9nvkm5wj/' target='_blank'img src='https://s29.postimg.org/f9nvkm5wj/20170823_135125_001.jpg' border='0' alt='20170823_135125_001'//a |
Welding advice needed
BTW, tubing is around 1" OD.
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Welding advice needed
"Ivan Vegvary" wrote in message ... 1948 Pontiac seat frame. Break is precisely at a factory weld. Can only get to about 50-60% of the tubing. Have acetylene, MIG and TIG. Lousy at TIG. Best way to reinforce joint? 1/4"x1/8" splines? Form a partial sleeve (wrap while sleeve red hot) around area? Slide solid steel bar into joint an weld the junction? Thanks! All advice appreciated. Ivan Végváry a href='https://postimg.org/image/f9nvkm5wj/' target='_blank'img src='https://s29.postimg.org/f9nvkm5wj/20170823_135125_001.jpg' border='0' alt='20170823_135125_001'//a https://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/aviation-...ication-part-6 |
Welding advice needed
On 8/24/2017 4:49 PM, Ivan Vegvary wrote:
1948 Pontiac seat frame. Break is precisely at a factory weld. Can only get to about 50-60% of the tubing. Have acetylene, MIG and TIG. Lousy at TIG. Best way to reinforce joint? 1/4"x1/8" splines? Form a partial sleeve (wrap while sleeve red hot) around area? Slide solid steel bar into joint an weld the junction? Thanks! All advice appreciated. Ivan Végváry a href='https://postimg.org/image/f9nvkm5wj/' target='_blank'img src='https://s29.postimg.org/f9nvkm5wj/20170823_135125_001.jpg' border='0' alt='20170823_135125_001'//a Solid steel bar inside tube and PLUG weld it. If the ends of the broken tube cannot be moved far enough apart (axially), drill the plug holes first & use them to manipulates the rod. |
Welding advice needed
Bob, thank you!
Ivan Végváry |
Welding advice needed
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:49:34 -0700 (PDT), Ivan Vegvary
wrote: 1948 Pontiac seat frame. Break is precisely at a factory weld. Can only get to about 50-60% of the tubing. Have acetylene, MIG and TIG. Lousy at TIG. Best way to reinforce joint? 1/4"x1/8" splines? Form a partial sleeve (wrap while sleeve red hot) around area? Slide solid steel bar into joint an weld the junction? Yeah, the last option sounds best to me. Standard or turned-down rod/bar stock. Drill the tubing and put weld beads between the frame tube and rod. Grind and MIG or braze there and in the broken spot welds. Or use this to _practice_ your TIG. Remove the cover before working on it. I've seen so many things damaged by people thinking "I'll save time if I just hold this out of the way, protected by cardboard." just before something melts. My, wasn't that a pretty (urk) color they used? - I am a Transfinancial--A rich person born in a poor person's body. Please stop the hate by sending me money to resolve my money identity disorder. --anon |
Welding advice needed
Thank you Larry!
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