Codes Often Lag Practice
May 15, 2007, Omer W. BlodgettFigure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 For most of my professional career, I have had the opportunity to serve on various code committees. For example, I became a...
Building Blocks: Constructing refineries, one module at a time
May 15, 2007, Richard MandelConstructing elaborate and massive processing facilities, such as this, is simplified when the project is reduced to modules that are built off-site,...
Letters
May 15, 2007, Welding StaffA much less costly way to stop wasting shield gas and much simpler is to simply move the flow meter to the wire feeder. Connect the regulator as usual,...
EU imposes 5-year duties on Chinese welding product
Apr 26, 2007The 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....
Mitsubishi Laser clebrates 20 years
Apr 26, 2007Mitsubishi Laser (www.mitsubishi-laser.com) is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its introduction of commercial laser cutting systems to the U.S. The...
Best Practice in Oxyfuel Welding
Apr 26, 2007By CLARE GOLDSBERRY, associate editor Oxyfuel gas welding can be a hazardous, yet good profession. And, while there are many safety specifications for...
You know you're a welder.
Apr 26, 2007, Bruce Vernyiwhen 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...
Bonal Technologies Inc. offers training
Apr 26, 2007Bonal Technologies, Inc. (www.bonal.com) is offering personalized technology training for companies that have purchased its Meta-Lax and Pulse Puddle...
Selecting the Correct Braze Alloy
Apr 26, 2007, Bruce VernyiBy 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...
Grainger donates to Hobart Institute
Apr 26, 2007W.W. Grainger Inc. (www.grainger.com), a national supplier of facilities maintenance supplies to businesses, donated $5,000 to the Hobart Institute of...
Don't Design with Your Heart
Apr 26, 2007, Omer W. BlodgettFigure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 All too often, engineers assume something must be true without analyzing the underlying principles involved. Deep down in their...
AWS District 10 and local businesses to address shortage of welders
Apr 26, 2007The American Welding Society (AWS) Local District 10 (www.aws.org/sections/districts/ district10.html) has proposed establishing a welding advisory council...
Trumpf Inc. expands in Mexico, appoints reps
Apr 26, 2007Trumpf Inc. (www.us.trumpf.com) opened a 6,400-square-foot sales, service, demonstration and production facility in Monterrey, Mexico, in late March....
Repairing a genuine draft
Apr 26, 2007, Richard MandelMiller Brewing Company's massive brew kettles, located at the company's Milwaukee Plant. Inset photo: Electrolytic, mechanical and chemical erosion had...
Quality Control Without Wires
Apr 26, 2007By GARY LEWIS, director of Business Development, SuperheatFGH Services, Inc. Edited by RICHARD MANDEL, senior editor With post-weld heat treatment equipment...
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