Picked up a Stampede 4x4!!

[lincpimp]

Alright. Well I may weld up one shaft cvd today to check fit. Waiting on the endmill so I can mod the hub on the other side.

I really need to clean up the bench, might do that 1st. Hard to find a place to work!!!

[J57ltr]

For something that small you are going to want TIG, You also want to use argon and sst welding wire. If you use standard mig wire it will be weak as all get out. Mig is fine for large materiat and structure, but for fine work it sucks. Stainless is very strong even getting a tack broken loose is a pain. Stainless will move on you as well. It warps easily if you are not used to working with it. If you need I could weld you up anything you need in sst. I do everything from 20 gauge sheet metal to 3/8" 100% through welds.

Jeff

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by J57ltr

For something that small you are going to want TIG, You also want to use argon and sst welding wire. If you use standard mig wire it will be weak as all get out. Mig is fine for large materiat and structure, but for fine work it sucks. Stainless is very strong even getting a tack broken loose is a pain. Stainless will move on you as well. It warps easily if you are not used to working with it. If you need I could weld you up anything you need in sst. I do everything from 20 gauge sheet metal to 3/8" 100% through welds.

Jeff

Yeah, I had read a fair amount about welding stanles a while back, and thought that tig was the way to go. Thanks for the info, and your weld is beautiful!!!

I may have to take you up on that offer. I have a lst based 6th scale buggy project in the "brainstorming" phase and I will need a front shaft made up out od a lst cvd. Can you weld stainless to steel, as I can imagine the lst shaft is chromed steel. I doubt it is stainless. I had to cut it with a fiber disk, the saw would not touch it so it must be hardened, or maybe stainless...

[J57ltr]

A good way to tell if something is hardened or not is to run a file across it. If it bites in it's not hardened if it slides across it like glass it is. Mild can be welded to stainless, but you need to use stainless rod. I use 316 rod 1/16" diameter for most things, but for something that small I just use 316 mig wire. One thing about Stainless is that it cannot be hardened like mild steel can it can be work hardened, but not hardened. Take stainless knives for instance they never hold an edge like a steel blade will.

Stainless it a very strange metal, it's soft yet hard at the same time and it's very gummy to machine, unless you use Carbide bits then it cuts like butter.

I don't see why I couldn't do it I make rollers for conveyors out of 11ga (.120") and they are always straight, and if they are not I nudge them into shape. They usually turn between about 400 and 850 rpm and we use then for conveyors with a scale under it, and we weigh all the way down to a gram and any vibration gets transfered to the scale throws off the weight so I think I can handle it. Send me a sketch and I'll put it into Autocad to make sure it's exactly what you want.

You can usually find sst tube and rod in most hardware stores, along with brass copper and extruded tubes and such.

Jeff