Weldable reducing pipe fittings?
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:20 pm
Something I found at a local metals place.
They have a shelf full of dusty pipe fittings, some of them quite large.
The description is that they are weldable, and they look like they were formed by metal spinning of some sort.
The steel or iron is quite thick walled- on the 5 inch to 3 inch reduction, the walls look to be 3/8th of an inch, or maybe up to a half inch.
Theres some nice, if short, cone shapes among these, and I am thinking of grabbing one or two as forming tools.
(Most of them are less than $40 according to the price list sitting next to the shelf- the 5-3 was $25.)
Is there any down side to these that anyone knows from prior experience?
Are they too soft? Would they deform easily?
They have pipe cap pieces too, up to something like 10 or 12 inches in diameter that look to be the same wall thickness or thicker.
(I did not check the prices on those.)
One of them would make a dandy large mushroom stake head, seems to me.
It'll be weeks before I can go back and toss money at the yard, so I figured getting some opinions first was a good thing.
As thick as the walls are, the only down side I could see is if they are dead soft and easily destroyed by hammering sheet metal down on or in them.
If they'll hold up, the reduction pieces look like an excellent forming tool for flared gauntlet cuffs, maybe burgonet napes or bills, and any other short but deeply flared pieces.
-Badger-
They have a shelf full of dusty pipe fittings, some of them quite large.
The description is that they are weldable, and they look like they were formed by metal spinning of some sort.
The steel or iron is quite thick walled- on the 5 inch to 3 inch reduction, the walls look to be 3/8th of an inch, or maybe up to a half inch.
Theres some nice, if short, cone shapes among these, and I am thinking of grabbing one or two as forming tools.
(Most of them are less than $40 according to the price list sitting next to the shelf- the 5-3 was $25.)
Is there any down side to these that anyone knows from prior experience?
Are they too soft? Would they deform easily?
They have pipe cap pieces too, up to something like 10 or 12 inches in diameter that look to be the same wall thickness or thicker.
(I did not check the prices on those.)
One of them would make a dandy large mushroom stake head, seems to me.
It'll be weeks before I can go back and toss money at the yard, so I figured getting some opinions first was a good thing.
As thick as the walls are, the only down side I could see is if they are dead soft and easily destroyed by hammering sheet metal down on or in them.
If they'll hold up, the reduction pieces look like an excellent forming tool for flared gauntlet cuffs, maybe burgonet napes or bills, and any other short but deeply flared pieces.
-Badger-
