February 28, 2007
Articles
New Automated Welding Inspection Systems
By CLARE GOLDSBERRY, Special to Welding A portable ultrasonic weld inspection kit from Automated Inspection Systems Automation is becoming widespread...
Annealing and quenching needed to weld CD4MCu stainless steel
We are looking for compatible weld filler to repair CD4MCu stainless steel casting. The welding process we are using is GTAW. Can you offer any guidance?The...
Ductility, Part 2: Factors That Encourage Ductility
In Part 1, Mohr's circle of stress was used to illustrate how multiaxial tensile stresses can reduce or even eliminate shear stresses that are essential...
Gated Community
Each welded intersection of this gate was cleaned with a grinder or hand-filed. Deck-plate steps lead up to Scott Brunsdon's clean-design welded steel...
The world is coming at you; get ready
It might be easy to think that a local welding shop is insulated from the effects of global trade and competition, but more and more there are warnings...
OSHA revises standards on hexavalent chromium
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released at the end of October 2006 a revised standard that governs regulation of employee exposure...
A way to reduce welding costs
Gas Saver Systems being tested on gas cylinders connected to wire feeders. Welding shops and welding schools that use the GMAW (MIG) welding process could...
Go Non-Stop
Time, as is often said, is money. A key to cost savings in most operations is the reduction of time spent involved in completing a job. The math is straightforward...
ESAB and PLSystems to commercialize hybrid laser welder
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products (www.esabna.com) and PLSystems (www.plsystems.us) have agreed to work together to integrate PLSystems' patented closed-loop...
IPG Photonics and Reliant Technologies develop new integrated industrial scanning system
IPG Photonics Corporation (www.ipgphotonics.com) and Reliant Technologies, Inc. (www.reliant-tech.com) have introduced a new industrial scanning system...
Metalforming Educational Foundation Awards $40,000 in Grants
The Precision Metalforming Association Educational Foundation awarded a total of $40,000 in grants to three programs created to enhance the U.S. metalforming...
Hands-on temperature inspection has increased accuracy
By DAVID KRINER, Quality Assurance Manager/CWI Goodhart Sons, Inc. Edited by RICHARD MANDEL, senior editor Goodhart Sons Inc., Lancaster, Pa., fabricates,...
Welding Wire Purchasing and Handling
By BRUCE MORRETT, product manager, solid wire division, Hobart Brothers Purchasing the right wire in job-appropriate quantities, along with proper storage,...
Anti-weld spatter coating
Secoa Technology LLC (www.secoatech.com) says it specifically designed its new FluoroClad SDFC metallic reinforced polymer coating system to repel weld...
Ceramic coating for welding
Acheson (www.achesonindustries.com), a business of National Starch & Chemical, has introduced a dry film protective coating for MIG and MAG welding processes....
Circular saws
Varady & Associates of Huntington, N.Y., expanded its line of saws with the addition of three, high-speed, heavy-duty, automatic, carbide circular saws...
Disk laser
Trumpf (www.us.trumpf.com) has introduced an 8-kW disk laser that the company says has a characteristic high electrical efficiency and high beam quality...
Grinding wheels
CGW-Camel Grinding Wheels (www.cgwheels.com) has introduced more than 100 grinding wheels that feature either a roll-on or turn-on attachment for fast...
Ink-jet marker
MG Systems and Welding Inc. (www.mg-systems-welding.com) has introduced an optional ink jet marker for its TMC4500ST, MPC2000, Titan II and MetalMaster...
Metal-cored electrode
Select-Arc Inc. (www.select-airccom) developed a metal-cored electrode for welding cast irons to steel alloys and carbon steels. Select 2216-C features...
Mig welding machine
Hobart Brothers' Hobart Welding Products division (www.hobartwelders.com) designed the new Handler 187 MIG welding machinewith a seven-tap voltage selection...
Monitor laser welding
Miyachi Unitek Corp. (www.miyachiunitek.com) has introduced a process monitor that is designed to monitor pulsed Nd:YAG laser welding. The MML-100A Nd:YAG...
Portable plasma cutter
Hypertherm (www.Hypertherm.com) has developed a compact and portable plasma cutting system that weighs 20 lbs. The portable plasma cutting system is designed...
Welding blankets
Newtex Industries Inc. (www.newtex.com) says it combined fabrics that withstand high temperatures with proprietary coatings to make its Z-Weld line of...
Weld-immune sensors
Contrinex Inc. (www.contrinex.com) has developed inductive proximity sensors that are designed to resist the electromagnetic field interference that robots...
