Originally Posted by
JDM61
Mike, I think that the argument is better to leave carbon than borax "glass". At least that is how I have heard it explained. My success rate with initial welds has been close to 100% since switching, but a fair part of that may be due to actually learning how not to screw up things like i did early on. LOL. Where it really shined was with the tiled end grain mosaic bars. But as you know, we are a superstitious lot at times, so I'm not going to mess with even meager success with the initial welds. With that said, at least one guy that I know, Russ Andrews, said in a pos in the last couple of days that he went from borax to kerosene a number of years ago, but recently went to true dry welding and said he never looked back after that last switch. Dry welding, even in a can, is a bit complicated for me at this point as i do not have a good or for now even functional welder with which to make a can or weld up the seams without leaving a lot of nasty weld wire. When my rich uncle gets out of the poorhouse and I can score a TIG machine, then I may take that next step.I have seen a couple of guys use one of those to weld up stacks, etc and that seems like something that would be vary handy. Of course, that means yet another learning curve, but then again, everything we do requires that.