Solar Flux Welding Stainless Steel

I was just wondering is it worth it to back purge every single weld to avoid sugaring or could i just use the solar flux type paste.

Solar flux welding stainless steel.

I ll mostly be using my maxstar 150 sth tig as it is pretty thin stuff 16 gauge but some pieces will be 3 16. Once it dried it was supposed to be like a flux coating to compensate for the lack of shielding gas. Solar flux is a complex chemical compound in the form of a very fine powder. Solar flux is mixed with alcohol methanol methyl alcohol preferred and brushed on the weld joint.

Program and is fully approved for use in all european countries under submission gp 445334 30. It is formulated to shield the back of the weld joint from oxygen dissipate heat and unwanted oxides and to clean the. Solar flux is a complex chemical compound in the form of a very fine powder. Solar flux type b is specially formulated for welding stainless steel and alloy steels.

Our solar flux type b stainless steel welding backup flux is similar in properties to superior no. Solar flux type b welding stainless steel instead of backpurging 02 26 2014 09 26 am for most job shop and maintenance welders who do a variety of welding on different types of materials on a daily basis and do not necessarily work on stainless steel all the time i can tell you one thing from my experience that a one pound can will last for a. In those cases we would use this stuff called solar flux at least i think that is what it was called. It is formulated to shield the back of the weld joint from oxygen dissipate heat and unwanted oxides and to clean the surface of the metal.

I ll be starting work on a large stainless steel human like sculpture. Solar flux is mixed with alcohol methanol methyl alcohol preferred and brushed on the weld joint. Solar flux has been providing welders with the means of making x ray quality welds on stainless steel and high nickel alloys for over 70 years. It was a powder that we mixed with rubbing alcohol to a past consistency and smeared on the inside of the pipe edge were the weld was going to be.