ever use galvinized sheet metal in your build????

yer real close to the hospital Mark..just have someone there to kick you aside and run you up there

you know how to keep the fumes out of your hood, and from where your breathing fresh air

Bob welded his in? right?
He aint dead yet

just be smart about what your working with. .. and take appropriate care



.So,,, you done yet?

 

After all that, here is the right information going by your description of the material.
If the sheet metal has a uniform smooth gray surface as you say it is what they call Satin Coat.
It is easier to weld than the heavier coating on galvanized sheet and produces less hazardous fumes.
You should still be sure you have adequate ventilation.
Read about Satin Coat and how they make it here.
http://www.cmetals.com/coated_metals/

 

If it is aluminum sheet it is most likely clad which is nothing more than a thin etched in coat of higher grade aluminum that is generally 10 percent of the sheet thickness. It has a higher resistance to corrosion. Google clad or alclad.

 

Use it .
"AND THE BOWTIE ROLLS ON"

 

a magnet will dictate if it's aluminum or not.

We use a grey coated metal at work, welds great. I also have used galvanized angle iron, and when that is welded, it spits and spatters like mad.

 

I'v used this metal for a log time we call it galivineel if you grind where you weld it and use everdure or steel filler rod it welds pretty good and it paints good

 

I'm am oxygen man and make a living helping former welders as well as paint and body men stay alive each and every day. They all thought they would never get poisoned either-----just be smart no matter what you do---

 

Randy, i started last weekend cutting this stuff up...figured i'ld cut a section out for the 1/4 midget floor..get a feel as to what it is to work with....using my brand new blue point air shear gun,,,,well this peice went great....cut a smaller 9"X14" peice and that went great....went to cut another peice, the first peice for Lil Beast and damn shear cutting head went TINK!!!!!!!!!!!!snapped it ....stupid gun is supposed to handle 16 ga.....snap on dealer picked it up tuesday...he's lucky i was out on a road call when he came..i'ld stuck the damn thing up his ***.....and made him give me another as a "loaner"...so as ussal the lastest effort to get something done to the topo has ground to a halt

 

Well dam, that blows

2 steps forward
3 steps back..
huh yeah welcome to my world too

at least you could return it, maybe the heat treating on the shear cutters was sub standard?

guess its time to move on to something else until he gets you a replacement tool.

The leaves are falling..soon it will be snow falling

 

yeah i stated the hemi last weekend for the first time since last fall....i painted the valve covers and the spark plug tubes that came with the motor are junk...seals shot...so i didn't want to cut oil all over the new paint...but last sunday was my 55 th birthday and i got the hemi bug....not much oil came out thru the spark plug tubes, but it sure went everwhere from the bottom of the valve covers...seems the studs i bought long ago for the covers aren't pulling the valve covers tight...which being a rookie hemi guy i thought they where tight...but turns out the spark plug tubes are what made them feel tight...

on the up side, it would seem i have great oil flow to the top end of the motor!!!!!!

 

55 eh?
well Haappy B day bro

 

When you absorb mercury zinc etc it tends to stay in your body forever and ac***ulate. Maybe you won't notice any effects. Then again maybe you will. But every exposure brings you closer to your limit.

 

did he eat it?......just kidding! yeah will give off toxic fumes when welding.stay away and stay safe kids!

 

1. We buy that material as galvanealled sheets, cuts and welds fine, just use common sense, and some ventallation. 2 Have never found in like 35 years, a decent set of double cut snips that will work for long at anything over 20 gage.

 

Just stay well ventilated if welding galvanized,Do it out side,Where a respirator If you have to,Ive welded galvanized before,Just try not to breathe it in.....And do a little each day,I would weld one day and take the next day off,It can make you sick if welding day after day.............

 

like i said before, thanks to all for the health concerns......having been in hazardous waste and demolition suppervison i found out about the different issues related to most of the common toxic building materials....

this is adressed more at the feasibilty of using it for flooring....

is there something more suitable for cutting 16 ga??? my snap on and the mac dealers are both new at the tool game...and i never had much need for cutting large sections of sheet tin .....at least none that i was trying to make perfect cuts in.

 

Best tool I've ever seen is a Bosch nibbler. They'll cut without distorting the edge at all. cut any sort of tight shapes as well as straight lines by using a guide. They will even cut stuff like the roll formed metal used on metal buildings, across the ribs. Makes cutting something like a floor or inner fender panel with stiffening ribs no problem at all.

http://www.cpotools.com/bosch-1534-...4,default,pd.html?start=3&cgid=bosch-nibblers

 

well it isn't a bosch, but i did get a nibbler from the snap on guy,,,,,very cool tool for sheetmetal work...playing around with a speedo head in the topolino....love the way it well cut a circle.....

 

This sheet use to cover my fire wood. Now with the 150+ louver's I
punched in it, it is the tail gate for my grandson's "Beater" 38 chevy truck !!!!!! "If it's free, use it" LOL

 

whittlin in the gaveneel......




haven't welded on it yet.......