Mig Welding Stainless Steel Pipe

Spray arc short circuiting or pulsed arc transfer.

Mig welding stainless steel pipe. The preferred method for high purity food grade stainless steel is an autogenous tig square butt weld. But if your car has a stainless steel exhaust pipe then you better use small spool for stainless steel wire and use regular mig welder machine and this is how to mig weld stainless steel exhaust pipe. Before i decided how to weld the header i used a magnet on the weld as well as flanges and bung to learn that the flanges and bung seemed to be carbon steel but those welds were holding up fine since they were tig welded with stainless wire. Besides this process is quite simple and easy to do than tig welding.

That is smooth and sweet. Mig may be ok but tig would be better and be sure to get 100 penetration. When mig welding on stainless you usually have three choices of transfer depending on your equipment. When welding stainless steel with mig any ferrous material including contamination by a steel liner in the weld pool can easily cause rust spots on finished work.

Gmaw or mig welding stainless pipe is normally a challenge because of the need to purge the inside of the pipe and because different shielding gases are required than what is used on carbon steel. Jeremy shows you the proper way on how to but the two peices of pip. I made mine from 304 stainless tube. Alternative gases that you can use are 98 argon and 2 co2 or 98 argon and 2 oxygen mix.

Tig welding is traditionally used for welding stainless steel tube and pipe and remains the optimal solution for extremely high purity applications on tube or pipe at or below 6 inch diameter and schedule 10 wall thickness. Before starting welding wears hand gloves face mask apron as protection from spark and light. Stainless exhaust system i always tigged mine and used straight argon and purged the system as well. Naturally you ll also make sure your mig torch is in good condition before starting to weld.

Even though most of the welding machine manufacturers have included a table of materials and voltage settings in the machine it is highly important for you to pick the right kind of gas and electrode wire to be used for mig welding stainless steel. Although welding stainless steel may not be as difficult as welding aluminum the metal does have its specific properties that vary from your more common steels. In this short video a new technology is being used. Mode of metal transfer.

Pay attention to the sound of the arc.