I have just been surfing through the EAA members only area of the website
under the homebuilt section/articles/welding and working with 4130. It seems
to me that all of the articles were written in the early and mid 90's. A lot
has changed since then and some things have had time to prove themselves. I
think that the EAA would be doing everyone a service if they would update
the information with current knowledgeable people writing the articles.

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Have a good one!

Steve
www.americanspiritppc.com
"Matthew P. Cummings" wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:46:36 -0400, nuke wrote:

Thousands of A/C have been welded up with Oxy-Acetylene. Why not go to
an
EAA Sportair workshop? They run both Oxy-Acetylene [& TIG] welding
sessions. A 2-day hands-on class will get you started off right.

At Oshkosh the instructor in the EAA welding forum said that due to new
information they now weld airframes with 4130 only, never ever use RG45.
I don't quite believe them and will do like Budd Davidson does, and nearly
the rest of the universe and weld with Oxy/Acetylene and RG 45, no fancy
Tig stuff for me because then I wouldn't be doing it.

Did anybody else attend the Welding forum and get that same information?
I'm wondering if the old guy was losing it, I think he's the same one on
the EAA tape, and there he goes with what most agree on, at Oshkosh he was
almost backwards on everything. In fact, some of the things he said, when
you got to the next instructor he would say don't do that, it's wrong, and
the student would argue that's what the other fellow just told the class.

So, I'm wondering what the value of this class is if the instructors
disagree among themselves, or was this just a bad day for that guy. BTW,
they were using RG45 rod that day.