WELDING AROUND TANK

[imagineers]

I am wondering the best practice or common practice for welding around the edge of a box, which will be a reservoir tank. In the picture you can see two concepts. 1. the side plates are undersized slightly to do a fillet weld all around, or 2. keep the faces flush and doing a fillet weld around. I would imagine the one with the undersized side would offer a nice weld area to get a good bead. I am not sure how they would weld the other one with faces being flush. I have seen laser welds dont on flush faces, but I am also looking for the strongest weld possible. Thanks

 

[imagineers]

it would be tough to spot weld the ribs ? the first rib is about 10" in from the end, so if I put the cover on, I am not sure if its possible to reach into the box to weld the flanges from the ribs to the bottom and top covers??

 

[berkshire]

At this stage you would need to walk down to the shop floor, get the shop foreman and walk over to the spot welder and see what tooling they do have.
Or if you are farming the job out , you need to talk to the subcontractor.
B.E.


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[imagineers]

Thanks