April Monthly post

I have done a lot of Forge welding this month and though I might as well show you guys how its done. Here is a quick video explaining it

 

He explains  all the basic principals and what it does to the metal. He also goes in depth about borax and other wielding assistant materials. Hope you enjoy!

Independent component 2

1a. I, Avery Brinkley,  affirm that I have completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

1b.  Riley, Robert Q. "How to Weld An Overview of Different Welding Styles and Techniquesby Robert Q. Riley." How to Weld: An Overview of Different Welding Styles and Techniques. Robert Q. Riley Enterprises, 10 Sept. 2014. Web. 10 Oct. 2014.

1c. Log is updated 

1d.  Over the course of 30 hours I have made a fireplace poker. This poker or fireplace poker represent techniques that I have learned in my previous independent component as well as some thought by my mentor.  In my previous independent component I learned how to taper and twisted metal. In other projects I have learned how to taper  Metal into a round or square point. What I learned in this project is how to forge weld. Welding is where you melt two pieces of metal together and combine them into one. This is used in construction all the time from making cars, holding up houses, even in the circuit boards of computers.  There are two main types of welding:  welding that requires solder, and welding that uses the two pieces of metal. what you see mostly in every day life on railings or in computers is welding that uses solder.  Just a mixture of metals similar in composition to what the metals that you are welding together are made of. Sauter has a lower melting point then those two metals so when you melt the Sauter onto those two it will then Harding and stick like glue. This is the equivalent of taking two sticks and using wood glue to glue them together. What I did on my fireplace poker was to melt the two pieces of metal together forming a single piece.  This is very difficult for a multitude of reasons. Most people think that after metal gets hot it will then melt. This is true but what they don't know is that the melting point of metal is it a very specific temperature. And when melting metal in an  atmosphere that contains oxygen the metal will burn. Just how if you light a piece of paper on fire it will burn and turned to ash metal will burn if it gets hot enough.  Simply this happens because the carbon in the steel reacts with the oxygen in the air and is ripped out of the steel in a violent reaction resulting in carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide is a gas and wants to expand so when he is formed on the surface of the liquid metal it causes air bubbles and can pop.  Bubbles give the metal a very weird shape and if they pop can be formed the metal significantly.  What I did for my independent component was make a fireplace poker that required me to do two different types of welds. On the first wild I simply folded the piece of metal back on itself and welded it together. The simplest explanation is As if I folded a piece of paper In half and had them glued together. I did this without Sauter so it was very difficult without burning the metal. The second weld on this piece was very similar to the first wild but I only welded a portion of it together.  I bent the metal back on itself and then welded the part that touched first leaving the rest of the metal and over but on welded leaving kind of a loop. I turn this loop into an oval and then tapered  The end of it to a point. what I was left with was sort of like an eye shape that I then folded and made it look like a heart.  This heart-shaped ended up being the handle and the other side with the first weld was tapered down to a poker.  The handle and poker weren't aligned quite right so I use techniques I learned in my previous component to twist the metal so they would align at 90°. Because the stock I was using was round stock not square stock,  when I twisted it nothing could be seen from the outside unlike twisted square stock gives nice spirals round stock shows nothing. This independent component required me to learn about borax a material used in welding to keep oxygen away, twisting metal, welding in two different ways, and how to taper both round and squat stock.