Hardsurfacing With A Stick Welder (Video)

[ChuckE2009]

Goodmorning, everyone!!

This is one of my newest videos, and it's a little crash-course in hardfacing with a stick welder...

To be honest, its a little outside my area of experience, but I'd had a LOT of requests for a hardsurfacing video, so I researched it for hours, practiced a little, and put this together... Hopefully, if you're interested in hardfacing, this will be enough to get you started

Anyway, this is one of those cases where a picture is worth a thousand words, but I'll do my best to describe it for anyone who cant/doesn't want to watch the video itself... I talk a little about what hardsurfacing is, and about preparation for the process... It goes over putting down a "buttering layer" of softer metal to act as a go-between for the softer base metal, and harder "cover layer", and also to repair the base metal... I even wear an apron in this video

Just thought I'd share... Have an awesome Tuesday, everyone!! :cool2:

(I'll have more videos here soon... Although Im currently on "forced vacation" after damaging a camera during a welding shot... Best Buy has it now, the protection plan I bought with the camera covered the new lens, but it'll probably be a week until I can make more videos )

 

[Shield Arc]

For dirt moving equipment, in my opinion the hardest part about hard facing, is judging the spacing on the hard facing pattern. And knowing the different soils. The theory is to have the hard facing pattern hold a layer of dirt so the wear is on the dirt, not the equipment. There are areas of the San Francisco Bay Area that has this blue clay. You start walking across an area that has this blue clay, when you stop you'll be 6-inches taller than when you started!:laughing: