Can you weld pieces back after you cut them?

[RavishingEddie]

Hello everyone. I have made prints and plans on a super project that will bring mags back on the map. The only thing I cannot do is weld. Can someone please tell me if it is possible to cut an aluminum piece off a gun and weld it back? I'm pretty sure you can but are any tolerances involved? Anyone here weld?

Thank you all once again.

[SCpoloRicker]

[Tool-of-death]

notta clue but this will bring some interesting posts.

[MANN]

pm luke. I dont know if he himself welds, however the stuff that comes from his shop looks flawless. Any of your local machine shops should also be able to help you, however its probally at the cost of 25$ an hour with a minimum of XX$$ If you have something that you are going to do alot of they may cut you a break.

As far as can alum be welded. Yes. It will be hard if it is thin/small pieces. As you probally know alum is soft, and melts at a relative low temperature. I have tried to weld alum, and ended up with a puddle of alum that I ended up scrapping for .50$ a lb. It defiently takes skill to do it right.

What are you making? or is it a suprise

Edit: I think k0m0d67 works in a machine shop. He might be able to help you out also.

[behemoth]

You can weld aluminum, but you have to realize theres alot of heat involved, so depending on what you're doing...

/knows a guy who can weld a pop-can back together
//no****e either.

[MANN]

How strong do you need the weld also? I dont remember who makes it, but some company makes alum rods that can weld a coke can. It has some special chemical alum alloy that melts lower than 6 or 7 thousand series. Im not sure how strong it was, but the person demonstrating it did an L bracket; I tried to break it and couldn't. Obvioulsy it bent, but anyone can bend an L bracket. I saw it at the Honda Hoot (Huge motorcycle convention/party 4000 motorcycles, and one HUGE parking lot).

[Triangle]

[StygShore]

alumiweld

http://www.alumiweld.com/

something like that?


Styg

[MANN]

Thats exactly what Im talking about. Id like to know if anyone has ever used it on something other than cosmetic applications.

[wooky]

Yes you can weld it back once yo cut it. there are different factors that would kick in depending on what you were doing.

[wooky]

Oh, my bad I did not go to link. Duh, anyway that would not work that would be used as you said for cosmetics or filling a hole. For structural integrity no way, not hot enuff nor enuff penetration.

[Robbie]

You can deffinitly weld aluminum but it does take more heat. You will need to be more specfic as far as far as what you are trying to do. A pic would help ..alot
I have a tig welder and will do it if you pay for the shipping. Most of what i weld is on the thicker side like hand rail gangways racks. so i would like to know how small we are talking and how thin.

[Rudz]

yep

luke can do it, he welded up a trigger gaurd for me..

[Pneumagger]

OH RLY
rudz know's why I dance