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Can you weld stainless steel to mild steel?

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Can you weld stainless steel to mild steel?

Post by InSanE »

I have an airbox that I want to mod soon with 4" inlet and outlets and it is made from mild steel, and I have some 4" stainless steel tube left from when i did my snorkel and im just wondering if stainless with be ok to weld to mild steel?
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Post by bigcam »

have tigged stainless to mild using argon and stainless rods quite regularly with success.
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My thread about arc welding - can be done. Just picked up some 316L rods today from my local steel joint for a buck each (only needed a couple).
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Post by ajsr »

yes they weld togher perfectly ok
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Post by Harb »

As they say you can weld shite to a blanket as long as you use the right rods :D
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Post by Gutless »

I have MIG'd stainless to mild successfully with both .9 mig wire and argosheild, and stainless mig wire and argon. Tig aswell.
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im running a unimig portamig 200 on .8 flux cored wire will this be ok do you think ?
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Post by Patroler »

have used 316L and er70s4 (LW1) in the past to weld 304 and 316 to mild without any issues, i don't think youd have a problem, if in doubt do a test weld on some scrap and destructively test it!?
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Post by muckute »

I used a gasless mig with steel flux core to mod my exhaust using some stainless tube, this incolved mild-stainless and stainless-stainless. No issues so far and that was 2 yrs ago, only thing is it doesn't look quite as nice as if it had been done properly
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