What type of steel?

Shield Arc · Apr 2, 2014

The last one I did for a buddy. I wrapped it in house insulation, and a welding blanket.

rsallen · Apr 2, 2014

Do you ever use any product like the paste type heat dam?

Nice home kit type (cheap!) of slowing the heat loss.
Low preheat? Perhaps 200 or 300 degrees?

Shield Arc · Apr 2, 2014

Last time I used the paste type heat dam was in the 1970s, when I worked in a fab shop.
2 to 300-degrees should be fine, just don't go overboard with pre-heat.

Here's a good video, shows how wear strips are installed.
AR400 Steel Welding on a Backhoe Bucket

Arc weld · Apr 3, 2014

Use 7018 and some preheat and you should be fine. Some people get the idea that peening means beating the heck out of the weld. That can add more stress. For a cutting edge, I'd just skip weld it and then go back and fill in between the welds.

Reyer Farms · Apr 3, 2014

When they peen like THAT!!!!!!!
They are testing the gorilla welds

It's ugly but...

Arc weld · Apr 4, 2014

I've seen some pictures of what some people called peening. Looks like a tree a woodpecker worked on for a week.

rsallen · Apr 4, 2014

As an admitted amateur I have plenty of other questions about this peening business for relieving or evening out stress, seems a contradiction in terms to me.
But I can and should read up on it more thoroughly first.
So I shall do that instead of hi-jacking the op's thread and then if I still have questions start my own thread.
Thanks guys you're the best,
and I do hope my little side track helped the op.