Welding

Short question.

Short answer - no.

Steve

But the correct answer - yes - is a bit longer.

Ned Simmons

Well, yes, you can weld stainless with gas. It just looks like dog turds and doesn't have any strength due to the very large HAZ. The high temperatures also kill the metallurgical properties of the chromium and other alloys that make the "stainless" stainless.

You can also weld logs.

Steve

The Tinman says that you can do it, and he sells flux for that purpose.

The correct answer is that you can weld 300 series stainless with oxy-acetylene, but that most people use TIG for that purpose. The other poster was only repeating what most people believe, that it can't be done.

Richard

wrote:

I weld soap Gerry :-)} London, Canada

It's not quite that bad, but it also isn't good. I'd say that yes, you can weld 300 series s/steel with gas (I've done it many years ago), but if I had any other choice, I wouldn't. If I did, I'd expect to do a lot of grinding/polishing, have to deal with quite a lot of distortion and have a HAZ with significantly different properties to the parent material.

Also the thinner the material, the worse the distortion is gonna be. Far worse than 1020 steel.

If the item was going anywhere near a corrosive environment like salt water, I definitely wouldn't bother unless it was an emergency and the short life expectancy was better than nothing at all.

Pay someone with a TIG to weld it for you.

PDW