My oldest son got into welding back in 1999 he was welding 36" pipe, with in 5 years he was making twice my pay. I was making aircraft body panels for Bell helicopters. I worked inside climate controlled buildings,He was envious of my job, I was envious of his GREAT PAY! HE RETIRED EARLY HE'S 56 YEARS OLD NOW!

Best videos on KZfaq. Greg is teaching class and he don't even know it! LOL! Thanks man!

*On Fire Welding* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.

Always good to watch your videos never boring as your always working on different equipment in different locations ! Always something different ! I was surprised Jacob wasn't along but I understand you have more than one job going at same time ! Thanks for the video stay safe and God Bless you & your family !

That’s why I love these KZfaq channels,so many different processes of repairs/manufacturing Thanks for the video, very informative

Mate no word of a line I'm in mining in Australia and I am doing this same job on the same machine never welded brass to steel this is a huge help thank you so much

Great work. I've done 12 sets of those v seat liners on our cones. We use an aluminum-bronze wire. The factory install procedure tell you to preheat the steel v seat to 300+ degrees before welding

Great to have you back

Neat process, thanks for bringing us along. Scott

I'm Glad I found your channel. Keep them coming!!

The Master works his magic again. Lovely job on this one. Thank you

The Goat back at it again with another one! Nice job Greg! Definitely a lot faster than tig brazing it that’s for sure

Great work there.I learned something new today.Thanks.

Cool time lapse with the clouds! I always appreciate a good view while working

I learned something new today! Thanks!Greg! For sharing! Awesome video!👌👍

That wire makes a great looking weld, thank you for sharing!

That's a first for me using that wire. Worked out pretty good. Thanks for sharing with us.

Thanks for the welcome back ,never gets boring watching you whistle while you work😅 All the gold in California is in a bank in Beverly Hills

Your videos are always interesting 👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧

I too always keep my guard on my grinder, until the first time I need to take it off.. Great work as always.

Great insights and handful of learning experience through ur videos. Looking forward to more. Cheers ❤

That was very interesting indeed young man. A job well done too!

I always learn something new in your videos. 👍🏻👍🏻

Greg you the man brother thanks for sharing

Greg I am coming to California to bne your apprentice. You have so much talent. All I am is just a old pipe welder.

very strange seeing plasma arcing with no sparks.....love the snow on the mountains......

Good video. I'm an old industrial commercial plumber and if you know how to weld the world is your oyster! just bought my youngest son a multiprocessor so he can practice when he's home. he's trying to get an apprenticeship with Hobart, too early to tell, but he's gonna be good with proper training. gonna watch this with him tonight. thanks for putting this out there!

Looks like a machine from NASA, always look forward to your vids m8, spot on brother

Very interesting. Thanks for another "tutorial." :-) I got bit by a grinder doing that. It took 2 months to completely heal.

I've never heard of welding these two different materials together, fascinating

Top notch workmanship.

awesome work love your vids

Very interesting. Never seen that technique before.

The finished product looks good

Gotta like the nice straight forward jobs when they show up. Never ran that filler material through a MIG, always TIG.

I’ve only started the video but, This is a cone crusher, HP400 or 500 as you say. That big piece on the ground is the support bowl. The bits off brass is the mainframe seat liner, and they’re brazed/ welded onto the mainframe. The big rams are the tramping cylinders with accumulators. I work with two HP300’s regularly

Great job, good to see a grinder with it's guard fitted. I know someone who's brother got half a 9 inch cutting disc stuck in their arm. Don't risk it.

I did a lot of TIG Brazing on certain race cars ( Classic Rally Racers ) I think that Bentley and Roles Royce are the only ones that still do their seams that way but they use mig process...Spool of that stuff is crazy high priced

Nice job.

Olá amigo caompanhando seus trabalhos!!!Muito bom trabalho como sempre, e boa sorte!!!

Mig-brazing. I have tig brazed with silicon bronze and aluminum bronze, but haven't tried mig. Yet. I need to get a spool of silbrz. For some applications, I'd actually prefer AL-Brz......but it's so ridiculous expensive, & I'm not sure why- Excellent video & repair!

The grinder guard 🤣

Nice one... although I was hoping for some half inch rebar... must keep on watching I guess... 😉🙂👍

That's some big lathe for machining that ring💪💪💪

Thanks for filming this. I guess I had heard of this process before but never actually seen it. Everyone on KZfaq focuses on TIG welding with silicon bronze. It appears to run fairly well though but I’m sure you’ve run it before.

Nice job

Good job 👍

Brass, A:s or Grass, nobody welds for free....good stuff Greg, cheers, Paul over in Florida

interesting. i tried to tig weld steel to aluminum once using two filler rods, needless to say it was unsuccessful. that looks good. interesting elevated tanker there, simplifies the relocation, never seen that before.

Another " FAB " job

Great Vid 👍👍👍👍

You get some really interesting jobs in some remote locations, Greg. Very cool! What does that machine do? A rock crusher of some sort?

alpha brass..more corrosion resistant...higher copper content, more red than "gun brass" Awesome stuff! Keep em coming!!!!

Just did a job like this, this past summer. I hate cone crushers lol

Hey Greg, have heard of Piher clamps i definitely recommend them fir your line of work much better then the Bessy style imo. There made in Europe Spain, they have a double threaded screw mechanism which increases the pressure you can apply by hand. They really are way ahead of the bessy clamp especially for stuff you need ti squeeze together. Piher Maxipress R is the 6inch throat depth one comes in various lengths.

I never seen Brass welded before. I thought because of the melting point of brass, and the melting point of steel. Would conflict with each other. Therefore not getting a good clean weld. ..Nice work !!!

I have a 10 lb. tube of 1/8 brass welding rods someone gave me 30 years ago. They are a whole lot different than welding with 7018"s

Definitely bronze. Brass would just fizzle and disappear. Brass is a major PITA to weld. Nice job winding that .035 on a ten lb spool!

Nice!

i want to buy a roll of that wire and try this!! thats very cool!!!

Did a lot of manganese bronze welding works great on stee

Have a Nordberg cone crusher that has a similar setup... Royal Crown stick electrodes are available when that's your only option.

Silicon bronze wire I have never seen used. Thanks Greg for showing the process! I’m learning from your videos, and am truly appreciative of the work you put into these. Good to see that MM220 being used with the new 800. Great combination for the field. How would you compare to a suitcase setup? The reason I ask is because I am considering a suitcase purchase, even though I have a Miller Multimatic 215 and a Primeweld MIG-285 I can use with my Bobcat.

308 👍's up on fire welding thank you for sharing 😅

I have used carbon dioxide to plasma cut copper worked pretty good much cleaner edge

Very neat best guess ppb Bronze.

Alright we're back ,,ya ,,Coffees on! Here we go! Cheers!;-)!!

I’ve been playing around with that wire and still haven’t got it to work right. It’s usually all bubbly. I might try running straight argon next time with the settings you wrote down. I’m eventually trying to braze a hole I put in the engine block of an old John Deere 544a that I bought from the saw mill

Great content! If you had to do it with stick which would you use? I love watching big boy welding jobs, you get some good ones. Thanks for all you share with us.

Using compressed gas instead of compressed air would definitely give you a better finish. When plasma cutting was invented it was only used with compressed gas.

Have you seen the new M18 Milwaukee grinder that you can't remove the guard or the side handle. The side handle has a switch on it that has to be pressed "first" before the paddle switch will work. If you release the paddle switch then press it again it won't work without resetting the switch on the side handle. It's the new angle grinder for pansies.

Nice job,as usual, but I think you are actually welding those pieces when using the MIG process. I don't think you have enough control over the heat to actually "Braze" the silicon bronze onto the steel. The ability to hit that sweet spot heat range and open the pores of the base metal just enough to "Braze' or "solder" the bronze can really only be achieved with a TIG process and pedal as you can watch the puddle and start to move as the bronze liquefies but the base steel doesn't. Just my opinion as I have always had to use TIG with silicon bronze when working with dissimilar's. I know it (MIG) seems to work well with cast irons but again I think there you"re still "welding" but relying on the elastic properties of the silicone bronze to help get past the "hot short" characteristics of the cast iron to reduce the cracking stress potentials. You're finished product looked pretty nice though and it certainly makes more money time wise than TIG. Always like your video's and your no-nonsense approach to explanation and just getting the job done. I use that same 220ACDC machine everyday in my shop and am pretty happy with it. Love your line boring setups and processes as well. Mark

I'm always intrigued about costs and how much that brass ring would be worth.

10:00 think the thing about the gold nugget looking rocks... that are just field stone but gold ish brass colored, have actual copper and zinc in them? found tons of those on the driveway as a kid and made a big pile, then the other kid stole them all.

love you,re videos when you pull up buiseness is gonna get done i know it is not cheap but what i now days

Do you run any special liner in your gun for silicone bronze wire? I have problems with it kinking while it is being fed sometimes. I ran it in my spool gun in the past with no problem though. Thanks! Awesome video!

Yep your good

Cool

I've seen a TIG torch as a heat source for brazing, but this is new.

Hey at the end, what was that conditioning disk? Great content btw. Ive TIG brazed plenty, never even knew you could dc mig SB.

they mix in helium for welding, maybe that would help for gouging?

That’s awesome Greg! I have only ever flame welded with bronze filler and it was challenging. Seen it used with TIG but haven’t seen it done with wire feed. Didn’t even know what gas to use. When I worked in the gravel mines when I was younger we had Jacques cones and they had no such sacrificial piece between the upper and lower sections. Did I hear Jacob was on another job? Did he graduate from helper?

awesome

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Question, is that the mig gun that came with that Millermatic 220? Nice work.

I do 90% of my work in the bentonite clay mines in wyo and the dakota's that looks like clay i deal with most days but its a different color its usually a shade of rust color it gets everywhere and it sticky my wife made me but a shower in her garage (shop is mine) when im coming home usually fri she put cloths out there for me and i wash and change in garage and has special washer there for my wirk cloths

In the world of plumbing there are brass and red brass pipe and fittings. Some projects would call out red brass, I don't recall why nor what the characteristics are.

If you used argon and helium it would weld hotter it sure helped my aluminum welding

Is the tanker on poles used for something or just a static display? 🤔

Is this your first job with your new machine?

Was the choice of wielding wire because it will wear like brass?

What makes all the black soot is that because 100% argon or the wire.

I wonder how many welding shops they had to call before they found someone that knew how to use a MIG welder with brass/bronze as filler material? 🤔 I have a feeling the shop close to me would look at someone like they have a third eye if they were asked that question. I wasn't aware it could be done.

Bon Boulo😆😆👍👍

is that not just fancy brazing?

How long of a lead you have on your plasma cutter

What Bernard gun do you have on your 220? I know you mentioned it in an old video but I can’t find it. I’m about ready to swing the machine around by the whip it comes with. Did you have to build it out or is it one that plugs right in?

how can the shielding gas not blow away in the wind?

rock tumbler

Re: keeping the guard on the grinder, I keep wondering why so many professionals on YT keep removing the side grips. They're so darn useful. So much more control. I actually bought an _extra_ one for mine, and a much better and more expensive one than standard! #PimpMyGrinder