May 19, 2006
Articles
Weld Orientation Has Consequences
Experience and experimentation have shown that the orientation of a fillet weld with respect to the direction of loading affects the joint's strength....
Lincoln Electric reports record quarter results
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (www.lincolnelectric.com) reported profit of $36.7 million, or 86 cents per share, on record sales of $468.4 million for...
A Stainless Puzzle
Three Diabolical Puzzles, from pocket size to 8 in. by 10 in. Scott Fredrickson, a self-described "artist-without-a-beard," awoke one morning with the...
Laser welding machine for round parts
Trumpf Inc. (www.us.trumpf.com) designed the Lasercell 1000 Powertrain for laser welding powertrain and gear components in high volume production facilities,...
Robotic welding cell
Marathon, a unit of Orbitform Group (www.orbitform.com) introduced a pre-assembled, robotic cell with two 30 in. by 40 in. tables mounted on a common...
Questions and Answers
Q: Are there problems indicating a partial flare bevel weld to be used with a concave profile? Should this even be done? The rational is that the joint...
No Gamble - Good Business Judgement
Mike VanHouten sets up a workpiece for laser-beam welding Accu-Mold used its laser welding unit to repair the chipped edge (above) of a lifter for a mold....
Airgas Reports Record Fourth Quarter Results
Airgas, Inc., the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases, welding, safety and related products, reported strong growth in...
Victor launches new brand and product mix
Victor cutting and welding products (www.victorequip.com) have been re-branded as one of three categories: Victor Professional, Victor CutSkill and Victor...
Weiler Corporation expanding
Weiler Corporation (www.weilercorp.com), a manufacturer of power brushes for the welding, fabrication and manufacturing industries, is adding approximately...
Ground Hog completes circuit
Valtra Inc. (www.stronghandtools.com) introduced a clamp that can ground the arc in all welding applications. The Ground Hog clamp's large, copper contact...
Hydraulic punch/plasma cutting
W.A. Whitney Co. (www.wawhitney.com) is offering a hydraulic tapping attachment and the HPR260 plasma cutting attachment from Hypertherm Inc. as options...
Portable plasma cutter
Miller Electric Mfg. Co. (www.millerwelds.com) designed its inverter-based Spectrum 1251 air plasma cutting and gouging system for hand-held and automated...
Press brake refinement
Amada America Inc. (www.amada.com) says it added features to its HDS NT press brake series that improve productivity. These additions include BendCAM...
Weld cleaning brushes
Weiler Corp. (www.weilercorp.com) introduced knot wire cup brushes for weld cleaning, cleaning large metal surfaces and deburring. The steel band on the...
Wire for hard surfacing
McKay Tube-Alloy AP-O self-shielding, flux-cored wire from Hobart Brothers Co. (www.hobartbrothers.com) is formulated for hard surfacing applications...
Building a "culture of safety"
Looking at that phrase "culture of safety" makes it easy to think that accident prevention is a boring subject. We've all heard it before, as demonstrated...
Selecting Grinding Tools
Prepping a tube for welding with an angle grinder. A hand-held die grinder. Bench grinder with 10 in. wheels. Grinding burrs from a wheel with a robot....
Playing It Safe at the Wheel
By ROGER E. CLOUTIER, Senior Product Safety Engineer Carborundum Abrasives, Saint-Gobain North America edited by RICHARD MANDEL, senior editor Safely...
The Way We Do Things 'Round Here
A welder uses a respirator. A welder dressed for safety. Ensuring safety takes time, money and effort. Meetings, financial incentives, disciplinary actions,...
Kuka Robotics endows college, plans tech center
Kuka Robotics Corp. (www.kuka.com) has provided a $1.5 million endowment to the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, establishing the Kuka Chair of Robotics....
Laser welding to grow
The market for laser welding equipment is expected to grow by 5 percent per year through 2011, as laser-welding technologies are developed for new applications,...
Miller Electric launches education web site
Miller Electric Mfg. Co. (www.millerwelds.com) recently launched a new section of its web site that was developed specifically for high school, vocational...
Ruling in welding rod litigation counters "silica" argument
The federal judge who is overseeing the national suit over welding fume products liability has affirmed the medical screenings that were performed on...
Shortage of welders hits W.Va.
Approximately 1,500 welders are needed by businesses in West Virginia, and the shortage is causing businesses to put orders on backlog and to recruit...
Occupational Outlook for Welding
While wandering recently on the Internet, I happened upon the 2006-07 edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook published by the U.S. Department of...
3M provides information on the new OSHA hexavalent chromium standard
3M is providing information to help its customers meet requirements specified in the new hexavalent chromium standard released Feb. 28 by the Occupational...
Arc flash labels
Brady Corp. (bradycorp.com) says its new warning labels meet National Electric Code/National Fire Protection Association requirements for field marking...
Four-axis vise
Wheeler Mfg., a division of Rex International USA Inc., (www.wheelerrex.com) says its Wheeler-Rex Fab Vise adjusts easily on four axes to allow easy pipe...
Friction welding system
A new friction welding system from Coldwater Machine Co. (www.coldwatermachine.com) is designed for a range of applications, including joining small parts,...
Gas leak detectors for resistance welding
Rocon LLC (www.roconllc.com) says its DeltaPoint leak detectors with DeviceNet interface protect critical wells in resistance welding robot applications....
Grinding kit for stainless steel and aluminum
The Grind Blend Kit from Rex-Cut Products Inc. (www.rexcut.com) includes a 4.5-in. diameter abrasive grinding wheel and a 4.5-in. diameter blending wheel...
Light industrial welding machines
Esab Welding & Cutting Products (www.esabna.com) says its MigMaster 173, MigMaster 203 and MigMaster 253 single-phase MIG welding machines offer performance...
Line of ironworkers expands
The P-40 is a full-featured ironworker that delivers 40 tons of punching force. Piranha (www.piranhafab.com) says because slugs are not lost while shearing,...
Metal to the core
Select-Arc Inc. (www.select-arc.com) now offers two carbon steel, gas-shielded, composite metal-cored electrodes, for weldments that require painting....
Microwelding systems
NovaTech Inc. (www.novatechinc.com) says welders can use microscope-based welding systems to repair molds, dies and tools with less than 0.0005-in. of...
New technology for laser cutting
Bystronic Inc. (www.bystronic.com) introduced a two-stage pulse piercing method that produces fast and clean cuts on laser cutting systems. In the first...
Plasma cutting
Thermal Dynamics (www.thermadyne.com) says it designed its new plasma cutting system to deliver high performance and low operating cost. The Auto-Cut...
Random orbital polishers
Dynabrade Inc. (www.dynabrade.com) introduced electric and airpowered random orbital polishers that eliminate swirl marks from a variety of surfaces....
Redesigned plasma nozzle
American Torch Tip (www.attcusa.com) redesigned the nozzle for the Hypertherm HT4400 plasma cutter to eliminate small secondary gas ports. The company...
Reels for twin-line welding hose
Coxreels (www.coxreels.com) introduced hand-cranked welding hose reels for storing 100 feet of twin-line oxy-acetylene or t-grade welding hose. The company...
Slim, light earmuff
Bacou-Dalloz Hearing Safety Group (www.bacou-dalloz.com) added L-Zero (L0) to its Bilsom Leightning earmuffs line to provide protection from intermittent...
Spool gun
The Magnum 250 LX spool gun from The Lincoln Electric Co. (www.lincolnelectric.com) is compact and weighs three pounds, excluding cable weight. The gun...
Three-step finish
Quick-Step from J. Walter Inc. (www.jwalterinc.com) is a metal surfacing system that the company says turns a rough surface to a mirror finish in three...
Water-cooled TIG torch
Weldcraft (www.weldcraft.com) has added a compact, 410 amp TIG torch for water-cooled applications to its Crafter Series. The company says the CS410 torch...
