Some titanium welding

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A couple of pics of some titanium I welded. Attached Images
Reply:very nice
Reply:Cool! What is it?
Reply:Cool.  Done on a positioner?  Nice work.   And fusion no doubt.Lots of toys.
Reply:I did it on a rotator. But there was no lip so I had to use filler rod. Here's a pic of the before.  Thanks Attached Images
Reply:slick!
Reply:Originally Posted by Fat BastardCool! What is it?
Reply:Beautiful. Why such a small bead?  The disc looks really thick for such a small bead, is the cone very thin wall?MM350P/Python/Q300MM175/Q300DialarcHFHTP MIG200PowCon300SMHypertherm380ThermalArc185Purox oaF350CrewCab4x4LoadNGo utilitybedBobcat250XMT304/Optima/SpoolmaticSuitcase12RC/Q300Suitcase8RC/Q400Passport/Q300Smith op
Reply:The plate is quite beefy, but the wall thickness on the cone is .060, plus it's for medical so they want everything as nice and neat as you can get.
Reply:Damn........ wish I could weld like that.very nice,mike
Reply:Originally Posted by mgroshongmessage to short
Reply:Did you weld this with TIG?
Reply:Ya mean YOU welded it or YOU pushed the buttons and had the robot weld it....what is used for filler???
Reply:Yea, looks wierd...The only hope that this plate is not structural but used as heat exchanger for test tubes... And all this blown by liquid helium or nitrogen....The weld of course is just robotic... It's nice to know that humans can this too... Well, if there are too many robots...
Reply:I'm not sure what robotic welding is. To do these parts I used a rotator and rested my hands on some blocks took some .020 rod, started the rotator and prayed. Just kidding, just have to stay steady and consisitent.
Reply:Originally Posted by microfusionweldingI'm not sure what robotic welding is. To do these parts I used a rotator and rested my hands on some blocks took some .020 rod, started the rotator and prayed. Just kidding, just have to stay steady and consisitent.
Reply:I always think its a good compliment when people think you are a robot...A good positioner goes a long ways..I love welding round stuff....makes you have to learn how to dial everything in. Did you run multiple passes on it? in the top picture it almost looks like you added filler first and did a small fusion pass after.... Did you use a pulser?  It almost looks like the results I get when I run a pulser at like 250hz +   It helps to focus your arc on the small stuff.Anyways looks like fun...I need to find something like that to weld on so I can buy or build a positioner.
Reply:You weld titanium and don't know what robotic welding is? hmm.Anyway, pictures look like they're off some site as advertisement or such.not something you snapped with a cellphone.:]unless you take a camera in to work to take pictures of all your welds ;]
Reply:Originally Posted by HassYou weld titanium and don't know what robotic welding is? hmm.Anyway, pictures look like they're off some site as advertisement or such.not something you snapped with a cellphone.:]unless you take a camera in to work to take pictures of all your welds ;]
Reply:Originally Posted by BrianNye Welding guyActually robotic TIG isn`t very common from what I`ve seen..Robotic MIG all day but TIG`s aren`t nearly as common.
Reply:Awesome work.I've always wanted to try welding Ti but have never had the chance.BrianNye....if you are ever in Upland, you can come by my shop and use my Aircrafter.http://all-a-cart.comWelding Cart Kits and accessories
Reply:[QUOTE=Hass;342630]question wasnt really so much as robotic tig, but robotic welding as a whole.especially for someone who is welding titanium. As I'm sure, they don't let every joe on the planet jump right in on medical titanium projects.Hell, I even knew about robotic welding before I even thought about becoming a weldor o.Ook and yo are correct that they don`t let you touch the exotics most of the time if you don`t have specific experience.P.S.What about a jetliner? that's pretty automatic.and that's... really, really common [/QUOTEJetline make some nice stuff....I used to want one of their welding lathes pretty bad when i did a lot of production welding of monotube shocks...would have made my life a lot easier welding caps to dom tubes all day over the garbage positioner.  But circumferential welding gear is a different world that robotic. Programming a robot to do TIG is a pretty specific /complex operation...a little more so than wirefeed I think. I know it exists as a friend of mine showed me some European machines a while back. Pretty high end stuff. But I don`t think it is really common right now. At least not compared to the number of robot MIGs out there.
Reply:Originally Posted by ZTFabAwesome work.I've always wanted to try welding Ti but have never had the chance.BrianNye....if you are ever in Upland, you can come by my shop and use my Aircrafter.
Reply:Originally Posted by BrianNye Welding guyI`ve not had the chance to do much ti myself either...I would love to stop by the shop and use the aircrafter when I`m out that way. I`m over towards the Valley but I should go see my 909 friends sometime.You never said which engineer you know at FAGTECH???
Reply:Originally Posted by ZTFabKritter, Kris Hernandez.I only do a small amount of titanium. I like to take pics so I can reference any questions with the customer. Just using a Sony digital camera. Mostly weld parts such as these. Attached Images
Reply:Originally Posted by pyroracing85Did you weld this with TIG?
Reply:aint tryin to stir poop but that is a co2 laser weld if i have ever seen one.. Got an iso stamp that says i can. tig welds , robotic or not, have a ripple them. you can see the the grains of the filler powder!Air vantage 500 on the 08' KWharris torchesl25 pro suitcasecomletely restored 1969 SA200 redfaceon my 08' duramaxPIMPN AINT EASY
Reply:second batch i didnt see is tig and looks nice!Air vantage 500 on the 08' KWharris torchesl25 pro suitcasecomletely restored 1969 SA200 redfaceon my 08' duramaxPIMPN AINT EASY
Reply:These parts look like dies for a mold.Am I right?
Reply:I do my share of positioner work, and I gotta say, you've got a very steady hand. I'm having a hard time seeing the ripples in the pics. Did you dab your filler, or just feed it strait in? It looks very smooth.
Reply:Originally Posted by KChoateaint tryin to stir poop but that is a co2 laser weld if i have ever seen one.. Got an iso stamp that says i can. tig welds , robotic or not, have a ripple them. you can see the the grains of the filler powder!
Reply:I ususally dab my filler on on work that is not round. Alot of what we do is small and very succeptible to warpage. So heat control is very important. So feeding straight in is not an option. Basically one drop at a time. On round work I like to feed straight in, because your feed rate is directly controlled by speed of rotation. It took me quite a few years but I came up with a formula. Basically I know if I'm using X dia. rod,running X amperage and type of gas I should be able to run rotator at certain rpm and be able to feed straight in. You also have to factor in material type as well as size of workpiece.   What part of Pa. are you from?
Reply:Wow really!!Air vantage 500 on the 08' KWharris torchesl25 pro suitcasecomletely restored 1969 SA200 redfaceon my 08' duramaxPIMPN AINT EASY
Reply:Originally Posted by KChoateaint tryin to stir poop but that is a co2 laser weld if i have ever seen one.. Got an iso stamp that says i can. tig welds , robotic or not, have a ripple them. you can see the the grains of the filler powder!
Reply:I'm just outside of Erie in north western PA. If you're asking I assume you're in PA too, or used to be?I've done some mold repair too, but the only time I did anything as small as in your pics was when I was in school.
Reply:The co2 laser i programed was a constant wire feed or blown powder....the automatic tig machines dipped wire..but its been a few years since i was in that field..Air vantage 500 on the 08' KWharris torchesl25 pro suitcasecomletely restored 1969 SA200 redfaceon my 08' duramaxPIMPN AINT EASY
Reply:I've seen some different types of wire feeders. But none of them had the capability of running small dia. wire. Typically we're using .010 and .007 and some .015. I imagine the set-up time would be considerable as well. We're not involved in very much production welding. Not that we wouldn't like to be .For the most part we do several jobs a day and each one is totally different from the other. The pics are of jobs that were all done on the same day. So trying to automate it would probably take some time. I may be wrong because I haven't researched robotic welding in quite some time.