Welding angle iron edge-to-edge along the length?

kinshasa · 2016-12-14T15:27:50+00:00

Hi! I need to join two pieces of angle iron. I've made a little freehand drawing, it looks clumsy - but the pieces are supposed to be identical........ It's quite thin material thickness, 2 mm or a bit more. Is this something that can be done with a stick welder? I have a fairly easy-to-weld 130 amps inverter. If this is possible, how do you make it as straight as possible? Should the two cut angle iron pieces be placed edge-to-edge and then weld over the seam line? Or should the pieces be placed a few millimeters apart at the ends and let the weld filler fill this gap? Someone said you could weld the angle irons when one is "inside" the other so you have more surface to attach the weld to, but it wouldn't look very nice. How would you have reasoned in a similar situation? Before the admonitions start pouring in, I know that MIG and TIG are better for this kind of work - but I thought I'd give it a try with the current resources, unless everyone says it's impossible. The angle iron joint is to become a couple of "specially shortened" legs for a pinball machine weighing about 130 kg. That is, if this can be done, there will be four of them. Thanks in advance/ Jörgen

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Norrhyttan

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20 Dec 2016 at 1:22 PM

Norrhyttan

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20 Dec 2016 at 1:22 PM

mexitegel said:
Haha, I have no idea so it was just something I assumed

Same here.
After a little image searching, I see that there are newer games with lacquered legs. It's probably just me who's prehistoric...

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