November 29, 2005
Articles
Welders keep Military Helicopters Flying
H-46 Sea Knight production line at Naval Air Depot Cherry Point, N.C. Steve Campbell, Naval Air Depot Cherry Point welder, uses a gastungstenarc welder...
Welding in crisis
In just one industry segment where more than 35,000 skilled production employees are needed, the National Tooling and Machining Association said in a...
Caught on film
Thermal images stop electricity "bandits" from impacting performance. Infrared surveys can find abnormal overheating due to loose connections, corrosion,...
Think outside the weld cell
The more stable arc offered by metal cored helps reduce spatter. Companies can identify non-value-added labor to determine if the shop is a good candidate...
Dave Barton Q&A
Question: I need to weld a stainless steel grade 904L, 1.5-in. schedule-10 pipe to an SA-105 coupling. I am considering using ER385 filler. Is this the...
Two Braces Hold a Competitive Bid
Specs called for fabricating two cones of AR 500 with a 32.125-inch circumference tapering to a 15.5-inch circumference within the 8.375-inch-high workpiece....
Woman who Weld
A welding instructor at WyoTech's campus in Blairsville, Penn., teaches students the fundamentals of welding Rebekah Thompson welds metal art sculptures...
Chart Industries opens liquid cylinder repair facility in Georgia
Chart Industries, Inc. of Garfield Heights, Ohio, (www.chart-ind.com) opened a 20,000-square-foot, liquid cylinder repair facility in a leased building...
Inductoheat offers electric galvanealing equipment
The Statitron transistorized induction power supply from Inductoheat is configured for Galvannealing. Inductoheat, Inc. of Madison Hts., Mich., (www.induct-oheat.com)...
Lincoln soars into Airventure 2005
AeroShell Aerobatics team, which is sponsored in part by Lincoln Electric, take to the sky over Oshkosh, Wis. The Lincoln Electric Co. (www.lincolnelectric.com)...
Magswitch Technology introduces welding ground clamp
Magswitch Technology Inc., with North American offices in Littleton, Colo., (www.magswitch.com.au) introduced its Magswitch welding ground clamp at the...
Tonight at the garage
Jay Leno used Scotchman's CPO350 saw to work on his 1966 Toronado. During the taping of the television show Rides, Jay Leno, host of the late-night show...
Vac-U-Max dust and debris collector
Vac-U-Max central vacuum system collects debris directly into a 55 gallon drum. Vac-U-Max of Belleville, N.J. (www.vac-u-max.com) is offering its Vac-U-Max...
From the Past
71 years ago in Industry and Welding Thawing water pipes with an arc welder For the December 1934 issue, E.A. Hobart advised readers on the safe use of...
Automate laser processing
Cincinnati Inc. (www.e-ci.com) is offering modular material handling systems (MMHS) that facilitate hands-off conversion of raw sheet into cut parts....
Back-bending robot
Back-bending robot ABB Inc., a unit of ABB Ltd. (www.abb.com), added the IRB 1600 to its family of small robots. The company says the robot is faster...
Bench-top wire feeder
The Lincoln Electric Co. (www. lincolnelectric.com) now offers a bench-top industrial wire feeder, Power Feed 10M, for a variety of welding applications,...
Compact lasers
GSI Group Inc.'s Laser Division (www.gsig.com) has launched the JK-300HP, JK300P and JK125P compact, mid-power industrial lasers. The company says its...
A diamond upgrade
Diamond Group Products has upgraded its Web site, www.diamondground.com, to include a tungsten guidebook for selecting and preparing tungsten, tungsten...
Gun's back end gets upgrade
Bernard Welding Equipment (www.bernardwelds.com) has announced it increased the thickness of the wall on the back-end assembly of the Q-Gun to boost the...
Linear slide adds flexibility
Kuka Robotics Corp. (www.kukarobotics.com) has introduced the Kuka Linear Slide, a self-contained, one-axis machine slide that adds a seventh or eighth...
New tooling for ironworkers
Piranha (www.piranhafab.com) has announced a new line of tooling that can be used on any standard ironworker machine and is available in inch and metric....
Propane torch
New features on the Hotspotter Propane Torch from Western Enterprises (www.westernenterprises.com) include a contoured nozzle, a push-button ignitor,...
Protect plasma torches
MG Systems and Welding (www.mg-systems-welding.com) says its SureStop magnetic collision sensor system holds plasma torches rigidly in place while protecting...
Self-adjusting welding control
Miyachi Unitek Corp. (www.miyachiunitek.com) has released an inverter resistance welding control with closed-loop feedback, five feedback modes and built-in...
Site for laser optics
Laser Research Optics has launched www. laserresearch.net. The site features small CO2 laser optics for low-power industrial and medical laser systems...
