Aluminium and steel welding!
Aluminium and steel welding!
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Merry Christmas everyone!
I am trying to build a closed trailer body with the left over steel shs beams I have. I have come up with a structural frame design, but I want to use al sheets to cover for obvious reasons. Fastening them to steel beams was my initial idea. Availability of al long sheets has made me re-consider how they are to be attached. There will be water entering between the gaps and I cant butt them. Any one know of any potting techniques to fill the gap ? or is arc welding possible? Not a welder but read some forums, mostly they say its impossible. There is one website though which says its possible through bi-metallic transition inserts? and coating dissimilar metals? Brazing?
V.
Merry Christmas everyone!
I am trying to build a closed trailer body with the left over steel shs beams I have. I have come up with a structural frame design, but I want to use al sheets to cover for obvious reasons. Fastening them to steel beams was my initial idea. Availability of al long sheets has made me re-consider how they are to be attached. There will be water entering between the gaps and I cant butt them. Any one know of any potting techniques to fill the gap ? or is arc welding possible? Not a welder but read some forums, mostly they say its impossible. There is one website though which says its possible through bi-metallic transition inserts? and coating dissimilar metals? Brazing?
V.





RE: Aluminium and steel welding!
RE: Aluminium and steel welding!
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
RE: Aluminium and steel welding!
RE: Aluminium and steel welding!
RE: Aluminium and steel welding!
When using stainless butt or lap straps under aluminum with stainless screws, this will work reasonably well if you are away from salt water.
If you are near a coast with salt spray around, the aluminum will corrode away from the stainless after a while.
If you use Aluminum pop rivets, eventually the rivets will corrode, but that is an easier repair. Monel rivets between the stainless and the Aluminum seem to give the best life.
B.E.
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