April 26, 2007
Articles
Quality Control Without Wires
By GARY LEWIS, director of Business Development, SuperheatFGH Services, Inc. Edited by RICHARD MANDEL, senior editor With post-weld heat treatment equipment...
Selecting filler metal for flue pipe
Please provide your recommendation on whether to use weld filler metal 16-8-2 or ER308H on stainless steel flue gas pipe made of ASTM A240-304H, and used...
Don't Design with Your Heart
Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 All too often, engineers assume something must be true without analyzing the underlying principles involved. Deep down in their...
Selecting the Correct Braze Alloy
By THOMAS J. WALZ Edited by BRUCE VERNYI A great number of brazing problems are caused by the use of the wrong braze alloy. Often, a braze alloy is selected...
You know you're a welder.
when you take a hot pot off the stove without using the handle and don't realize it until your wife tells you. when you say: "Officer, I know I was weaving...
New techniques for welding
New bridges with cablestayed designs have been popping up on highways across the nation, and they have a distinctive, sleek look to them. Rather than...
Highway in the Sky
Welders assembling sections of stainless sheathing for cable stays on the Veterans' Glass Skyway Bridge (model shown at above). Preparing to weld stainless...
Best Practice in Oxyfuel Welding
By CLARE GOLDSBERRY, associate editor Oxyfuel gas welding can be a hazardous, yet good profession. And, while there are many safety specifications for...
What You Need to Know About Hexavalent Chromium
Steel is made into "stainless" alloys with the addition of 4 percent to 30 percent chromium, and the typical stainless steel alloys contain about 10 percent...
Repairing a genuine draft
Miller Brewing Company's massive brew kettles, located at the company's Milwaukee Plant. Inset photo: Electrolytic, mechanical and chemical erosion had...
Airgas to take over a part of Linde AG
Airgas (www.airgas.com) has purchased the packaged-gas business of Linde AG for $310 million in cash. The acquisition marks the 355th acquisition by Peter...
Bonal Technologies Inc. offers training
Bonal Technologies, Inc. (www.bonal.com) is offering personalized technology training for companies that have purchased its Meta-Lax and Pulse Puddle...
EU imposes 5-year duties on Chinese welding product
The Budapest Business Journal (www.bbj.hu) reported that the European Union in early March imposed a five-year tariff on a welding product from China....
Grainger donates to Hobart Institute
W.W. Grainger Inc. (www.grainger.com), a national supplier of facilities maintenance supplies to businesses, donated $5,000 to the Hobart Institute of...
MG Systems & Welding produces 300th machine
MG Systems and Welding (www.mg-systemswelding.com) said it expected to ship in April its 300th Titan II cutting machine. The machine was destined to go...
Mitsubishi Laser clebrates 20 years
Mitsubishi Laser (www.mitsubishi-laser.com) is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its introduction of commercial laser cutting systems to the U.S. The...
AWS District 10 and local businesses to address shortage of welders
The American Welding Society (AWS) Local District 10 (www.aws.org/sections/districts/ district10.html) has proposed establishing a welding advisory council...
Northern University opens robotics center
Ohio Northern University (www.onu.edu) and the Kuka Robotics Corporation (www.kukarobotics.com) opened a state-of-the-art robotics center at Ohio Northern...
Trumpf Inc. expands in Mexico, appoints reps
Trumpf Inc. (www.us.trumpf.com) opened a 6,400-square-foot sales, service, demonstration and production facility in Monterrey, Mexico, in late March....
MG Systems and Welding Inc.
EdgeMate and EdgeMaster upgrades from MG Systems feature a new control, drives and plasma and oxyfuel lifters. MG Systems and Welding Inc. (www.mg-systems-welding.com)...
Plasma Cutting Systems And Products
Hypertherm Inc. (www.hypertherm.com) has introduced a new compact plasma cutting system - the Powermax30 - that is designed for on-the-job use with a...
Thermal Dynamics Drag-Gun Plus
The Drag-Gun Plus system from Thermal Dynamics comes with an installed humidity removal kit. The new Thermal Dynamics Drag-Gun Plus portable plasma cutting...
Also new from Thermal Dynamics is the XT-300 and XT-301
Thermal Dynamics' SpeedLok torch requires a half turn to engage and lock. Also new from Thermal Dynamics is the XT-300 and XT-301 series plasma torches...
Thermal Dynamics has also introduced its 1 Torch
End users with multiple brands of plasma systems can consolidate consumable requirements with Thermal Dynamics' 1 Torch. Thermal Dynamics has also introduced...
