Seffers93 Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Well, I managed to get a stump for my makeshift anvil but I have to borrow a chainsaw to get it flattened out. Today was my only day off this week so I used the crappy anvil stand I put together and tried forge welding three pieces of 1084. I really want to get into San Mai so I figured just getting three pieces of steel to weld would be a good start. I cut three small pieces, cleaned them up, used a super cheap flux core welder to weld around the edges, threw it in the forge and started hammering (not very hard, just enough to hopefully set the weld) After, I cut the piece in half and I think it looks pretty good. Although I wouldn’t be able to tell if the center piece stayed center, so I’m going to try some 15N20 and 1084 soon and drop it in ferric to see. Then the torch on my forge started sputtering really bad (I’ve noticed it does this after being on for maybe 20 minutes) so I shut it down and decided I should do some research on that before firing it up again. Had a blast trying this for the first time though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Looks welded to me, good first try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Looks welded to me too. I believe all you needed to do is just get good tack welds. Welding the entire end was probably a bit more than necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 It's a known variation on a cannister weld. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 If you weld all four sides, yes. Welding just the ends solid isn’t that is it? Never mind. I see the sides now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 No but the original post says "to weld around the edges" so I assumed all 4 edge sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 I missed that. It wasn’t in bold type so I skipped right over it. How do you remove the O2, or is that not a problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 if the surfaces are clean and flat not much O2 in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffers93 Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 DHarris & Thomas, yes, I welded around all four edges as I’ve heard from a couple people that this helps to keep oxygen out when you don’t have flux on hand. The three pieces were also pretty flush so I’m sure that helps a lot too. Should I be doing something different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 If it's working for you: NO! If you have issues there are a few other "tricks" you can try as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffers93 Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 Sounds good to me! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Heck no. I plan to try it myself. As you learn new tricks, post them too. Even old tricks will be new to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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