Welding tungsten to stainless

If you touch your tungsten to either of these metals they seem to fuse rather well to the tungsten. So, I guess welding them would work just as well. They might be rather brittle after welding, so keep it straight to start with, as I don't think it will stand much bending to straighten it out.

Not really knowing at all, I would go with 309 filler, since that's what used for dis-similar metals, if needed at all.

Randy

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function on my Everlast TIG/stick/spot inverter welder ...

Through the years, I have welded stainless to mild steel a number of times. I was told to use a higher chromium content rod than the parent metal, and it has worked OK. DCEN sounds right to me. Personally, I would just TIG weld it. If you could get a scrap of the stainless tube, try a test weld. My experience with welding stainless is that it tends to move around a lot when you heat it.

Good Luck, BobH

afternoon , I'm going to build her a fixture . They are attaching pieces of 1/16" , 1/8" , and 5/32" TIG electrodes to some 5/32" ER316L filler rod pieces . What I will be doing is building them a fixture so they can silver solder their own tooling together .

I was curious how what you were describing worked for beads. I was envisioning the tubes that I see them use at the glass blowing shops, but it didn't make sense for beads. Now it does...

BobH