I made a pair of third hands, tig welded with copper wire as a filler. It took a lot of heat before I could get a puddle. Welded really nice after that. It was almost entirely glowing red when I was finished. 3/8 round .I made a bronze weight on one of them.
Copper sure is interesting to weld. Very pretty 3 hand. I built one similar to yours out of stainless but alas, I needed the rod for something else and had to cannibalize the poor thing. Another one of my little gifts to myself that is missing some part of its anatomy sitting outside in that cold scrap pile.
Jakedaawg wrote:Where do you guys find the copper to make things like this?
jake
You don't specify in your profile where your located, if you're in the US and happen to be near a Alro Metals drop shop, that is one source.
There are online metals suppliers, but it won't be cheap. Example, onlinemetals.com if you sign up for their newsletter you'll receive monthly discounts
Poland308 wrote:Those were probably grounding rods. You could get them at any Home Depot or major chain stores for electrical supply shop.
Josh, I thought that the copper grounding rods from HD were solid copper too but at the store I was at they were only copper plated. I even remarked about it to my electrician friend about how dangerous it would be to have a grounding rod decay after a few years and he told me to get pure copper you need to go to an electrical supply house. By coincidence I have to go to HD today, I will check the rods out and update. My friend told me they were copper plated .
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Guess they cheap out sometimes. They usually keep both kinds on hand here. We have Menards around here too I've gotten them there before as well. I used some for a project I had to make a grate I cut the bars out of a couple and brazed them up with oxy.