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Looking for someone who can weld aluminum
Lew_Merrick_PE:
--- Quote from: Brass_Machine on September 06, 2010, 12:57:55 AM ---I once knew a welder in Georgia somewhere that did an amazing job with just about everything he welded. Was told he could weld Aluminum to water... almost believable with his work. I guess what Lew is saying something like this Magician = Master.
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Not quite, a normal Master's card requires one to do virtually anything the science says can be done. A magician-class person goes beyond science. The first one of these I ran into a an Army Master Sargent by the name of Bill Brown. I had just completed my thee-quarter sequence in metallurgy. The Metal's Handbook stated rather firmly that steel may not be welded to titanium. Bill not only did it, but it qualified under NBS/NASA scrutiny as a 100% metallurgical bond under electron microscope analysis. The technique has since been "recognized" by ASM and AWS, but at the time it was considered to be impossible.
I still blush when I think about my having called Sgt. Brown a liar...
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