{"id":549,"date":"2021-03-09T23:34:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2021-03-09T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:34:13","slug":"did-someone-say-exotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Did someone say exotic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is just a couple of examples of some of the exotic metals we frequently work with. The first is the repair of a crack on a titanium exhaust. These always need to be purged with argon to ensure there is no corruption on the inside! The second is a large piece of magnesium that needed holes filled. Titanium can be welded using a direct current, similar to steel\/stainless steel alloys, whereas magnesium needs an alternating electrical current, like aluminum. But it is imperative that you use the correct filler rod! <a href=\"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-550\" src=\"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tita-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tita-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tita-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tita-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tita.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-551\" src=\"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mag-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mag-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mag-768x834.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mag-943x1024.jpg 943w, https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mag.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is just a couple of examples of some of the exotic metals we frequently work with. The first is the repair of a crack on a titanium exhaust. These always need to be purged with argon to ensure there is no corruption on the inside! The second is a large piece of magnesium that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1sxMp-8R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaytechwelding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}