RE: Creative welding procedures (Was: flange failure)

From: <Al>
Date: Sat Jan 31 2004 - 17:09:00 EST

After sitting on the sidelines I couldnt resist. I always thought a "Bi-weld" was one that went either way.

From: Christopher Wright [mailto:chrisw@skypoint.com]

>It raises some interesting possibilities, for example welding steel pipe to
>aluminium pipe. We could use one welder to do the steel welds, and the
other
>to do the aluminium welds.

That's just silly. For the final bi-metal weld you let one welder use the other guy's equipment.

>Futher if one welder is qualified for 12mm welds
>perhaps we could use him to do two 6mm welds at the same time.
Now that's more practical.

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___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)

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