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Welding Stainless Steel
Hi all, I'm about to weld a Rovers North stainless steel replacement center bulkhead assembly into place on my SIIA. Anyone have any experience or recommendations for wire (309)? Can I use 75/25 gas mix to join the stainless to the mild steel bulkhead? Here are photos. Thanks.
Chris
5th Gear
Welding stainless to mild steel is best avoided in my opinion. But I have done it with 308 wire and 100% argon. Never tried it with 75/25, so no experience there. 308 wire is a good wire for welding different stainless grades together from what I've heard.
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Thanks for the advice. I picked up some 309L wire and plan on trying that with the 75/25 mix. I'm not doing anything really serious, just applying a several plug welds to secure the replacement bulkhead assembly; then using seam sealer to make it water tight. In retrospect, I should have just purchased a replacement bulkhead!
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Just an update for all to see.The plug welding went well and the bulkhead replacement assembly is in place. Yay!
Not pretty, but it's solid!
5th Gear
I don't know why this didn't occur to me, but because you were plug welding to mild steel, you would have been just fine using a mild steel wire and 75/25 I think.
Looks like it worked fine either way.
61 II 109" Pickup (Restomod, 350 small block, TR4050)
66 IIA 88" Station Wagon (sold)
66 IIA 109" Pickup (Restomod, 5MGE, R380)
67 IIA 109" NADA Wagon (sold)
88, 2.5TD 110 RHD non-hicap pickup
-I used to know everything there was to know about Land Rovers; then I joined the RN Bulletin Board.
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