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High Silicone Content in Steel

03/02/2010 12:25 PM

Does anyone know if having a high silicone content in mild steel will make it harder to get proper penetration when welding it?
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Re: High silicone content in steel

03/02/2010 1:23 PM

Hmmm, silicon maybe?
I don't see why it should.
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Re: High silicone content in steel

03/02/2010 2:43 PM

Well it's just that we had a batch of coils that we got in and it didn't seem to weld as good and the galvanizing didn't stick to it as well as it should either so I was just wondering if it had anything to do with the fact that it had a high silicon content. Thanks
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Re: High silicone content in steel

03/02/2010 4:36 PM

Are the steel coils within your specs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_steel

Perhaps you received the wrong shipment? It does happen sometimes. What does your supplier say?

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Re: High silicone content in steel

03/04/2010 2:02 AM

Is ir galvanised and then welded? If it is so, then Si may have some issues with Zn.

Otherwise high Si steels are perfectly weldable.
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Re: High silicone content in steel

03/02/2010 2:39 PM

no it doesn't
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