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Weld Prep Cost Question

johnoder

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What would be your idea of cost (in time) to to track burn and hand grind 2.5" wide and 2.5" deep weld bevel on 4130 plate per inch? I have about 8500 inches aggregate to do on about 30 pieces of 5" plate about half curves and half straight.

TIA

J.O.
 
This is a how long`s a piece of string question.A 45 deg bevel is roughly 3.5" through the cut.A oxyacetylene burner will run at 3-5 feet/min on that thickness.
How many stop starts will he have?
How good a worker is he?
What quality of cut is he going to leave for the grinding?
If I was costing it I would allow 12-16hours.
OTOH,I have a man here who would do it in 10-12 hours.
Sorry can`t be more specific.
 
The company i use to work for switched to milling weld preps on a large 50 taper bridge mill.

Firstly you can't have some one running a grinder over here under health and safety law. Hand arm vibration levels.

Secondly the accuracy - Finnish was superb. Practically no post burn clean up We were in high strength steels and cutting haze was a issue. Till then we had done profile burning of weld preps which is slow, but a lot faster - easier than track cutting that much.

Third and most crucially everything went from a V prep to a J prep. Thats a significant reduction in the number - amount of passes to fill the joint back up on heavier plates. Hence massive welding cost savings as well as a reduction in weld induced stress. Ie products should have a lot longer fatigue life in the field.

I know its not answering your question but its food for thought, a 45 degree bevel is way to wide IMHO for most joints needs.
 
You got a sub arc? That said melting that much fillers going to need lots of coins fed into the electric meter, heck better employ some one just to feed them in :-)
 
Well worth having a j bevel machined in 1/2 the filler metal.

If xray inspected prolly need to figure on a back gouge also.

What process sub arc, shield arc, shield arc wire. hard wire?
 
Well worth having a j bevel machined in 1/2 the filler metal.

If xray inspected prolly need to figure on a back gouge also.

What process sub arc, shield arc, shield arc wire. hard wire?


I'm with adama and Heavey..."J" prep would surely be best from a productivity standpopint as long as your code of construction allows it. If you are going to SMAW that mess, you have a lot of hours ahead, even sub arc you can probably only get 20-25#/hr down, unless you have a schnazzy multi-wire SAW running 5000 amps, then I'm really jealous!

Steve
 








 
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