COMPOSITE
Weighs more
Takes longer
Burns better
Tough to repair, but easy to fix
Questionable longevity, (as ozone and ultraviolet love it)
Finish the job, lose the medical
Building anything with a spatula causes an instant loss of self-respect.
HAMMER WELDING?
is that goofy term still hanging around?
I use a torch to weld with, not my body hammer.
I could never get my hammers hot enough to weld with.
They never break, so I don't have to fix them.
I tried to hammer the metal together but it never held.
My blacksmith heats the metal to a white heat in the forge, and then
hammers it tightly together, and this is called "forge welding." ---(But Frank Turley calls it a
"forge glue.")
Hammer welding is a "hotrod term", based on the mischief that if you hammer on hot glowing steel that has
been previously welded with either torch or TIG, then you are "hammer welding"...you see the logic?
Hammering on a hot weld means "hammer welding"?
I never have figured out what they label it when I hammer hot steel way far from a weld. Traditional metalmen
label hotworking methods as, "hot planishing", where the metal is smoothed when hot. "Hot shrinking"
where the metal is shrunk, and "hot stretching" where...you guessed it...the metal is stretched. These
terms are used professionally by many, but "hammer welding" is a cause for laughter amongst the true
metalmen. Decades ago, some guy must have walked by a blacksmith's spreading chestnut tree and saw him
forge-welding and then saw a body man heating and beating a fender and figured out the new term for
both: "hammer welding." ...And both of those craftsmen must have laughed when they heard it. But it
stuck.
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