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- G A S W E L D I N G S T E E L
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- SOME PRACTICE
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- For this tutorial you will need
- some scraps of steel. Pieces cut
- from old bicycle frames is a good
- choice because they have good
- thicknesses of steel for begin-
- ning practices and because they
- are frequently discarded and
- therefore easy to acquire.~
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- Remove the paint from your
- steel before welding or work in a
- very well ventilated area.~
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- All welding practices will be
- done with a neutral flame. The
- neutral flame consumes all oxygen
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- and carbon in its exhaust and
- therefore does not pollute the
- weld with carbon, or oxidize
- the metal.~
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- PRACTICE #1~
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- Cut a piece of tubing from the
- bike frame 8-10" long and clamp
- it in a vise. (What, you don't
- have a vise? ...and you call
- yourself a welder... Go buy a
- vise...we'll wait.) Put a #2 or
- #3 tip, or, depending upon the
- numbering system of your weld-
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