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welding forged steel to spring steel
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Posted by Gnu_Marshall (My Page) on Sat, Jun 11, 05 at 19:41
| Hello, this may be off topic from the norm here but, I'm curious about making a sculpture that will incorporate a sword in it's design that will be using a leaf spring from an automobile's rear suspension and a connecting rod from the cars engine. The spring is steel and the connecting rod is forged and not cast. What problems am I going to have when attempting to join these two items? I'm thinking that they will have to be brazed but am not sure since the connecting rod isn't cast iron. Any help or input would be appreciated.
Cheers!
-Marshall |
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RE: welding forged steel to spring steel
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Brazing would work great or you could silver solder it.
Good lucl Jim |
RE: welding forged steel to spring steel
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| If you have a mig welder you could mig weld it. just watch out for bumps at high rpm. Roscoe |
RE: welding forged steel to spring steel
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| There is always the forge weld using the deterrgent cleaner junk. Something like how they make the layers while making swords. |
RE: welding forged steel to spring steel
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As long as you realize that welding on the spring steel will weaken it as a sword there is absolutely no problem welding the two together with any standard welding method.
I am assuming that this is not meant to be a functional sword. |
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