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Originally posted by waaytoomuchintothis View PostI have a little 120v wire feed welder. I never even considered using for chassis. I may look into it, but as has been said, I won't be buying a tiny welder for thousands, regardless.......stick with your iron for chassis building...................welding uses/requires SIGNIFICANTLY more heat than soldering, and the increased heat can change the properties of the base metal (the wire)..........this may reduce the flexing properties and memory of the piano wire, which is why it is so good in the first place.
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Chris WalkerLast edited by chrisguyw; November 17, 2020, 03:30 PM.
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Tig? Plasma. Super cool! .... but it'll take the twang right out of piano wire where ever you spot it.
Spendy with with a near vertical learning curve for the unindoctrinated. You dont just pick up a tig torch and start spotting piano wire together, that is fractionally over the diameter of the tungsten electrode.
Chris is right of course. Dont let your iron quit it's day job!
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I have a question about piano wire , when soldering how clean must it be ? Can you just clean it off with rubbing alcohol and then rough it up with steel wool or emery cloth ?
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For the length of time that takes to spot a weld (less than a tenth of a second) the wire isn't going to generate enough heat to take the temper from more than a couple of mm of wire.Kevan - Isle of Man
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