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5 Ways to Calculate Your Actual Welding Costs
Tracking equipment purchases, labor hours, filler metal, and consumables is obvious and relatively straightforward. If you’re like many fabricators, though, you’re probably also budgeting for expenses you shouldn’t have to incur.
Calculate Total Weld Cost from Fabrication Shop Data
The updated ESAB Quick Weld Productivity Analyzer tool enables fast report generation and editing. Among its improvements, the calculator provides more filler metal for the North American market.
Healthy Welding Wire? No Cancer-Causing CrVI Emissions Here
Free of chromium and nickel, EnDOtec Safe-Hard 600 wire range from Castolin Eutectic has reduced fume emissions and complies with the strictest European Exposure Occupational Limits. Perhaps more than 120 million workers are exposed to harmful welding-related fumes, so removing Hexavalent Chromium (CrVI) is an engineering, chemistry and safety coup.
One Modular Torch Covers Multitude of Needs
Fronius’ welding torches for manual Tungsten Inert Gas welding (TIG) can be customized to suit the welder’s personal preferences as well as the welding task at hand. Their modular design offers a range of sustainable and cost-effective options.
Busted: 5 Myths About Metal-Cored Welding Wire
Metal-cored wire isn’t new, but there are often misconceptions about applications, cost, performance, strength, and workability compared to solid wire. Read on to learn how you might be missing opportunities to increase welding operation productivity for less cost.
Inflatable Pipe Purging System for 300ºC Pre- and Post-Weld Heating
Achieve continuous pipe weld purging during sustained heat treatments with HotPurge, developed by Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT. The system is available in 6” to 88” and can be used repeatedly.
Two in One: Hybrid Milling/Friction Stir Welding Machine
Mazak expands its line of multitasking machining centers with the VTC-300C FSW, a milling machine with friction stir welding (FSW) package for joining alloys with low melting points. Machine also features full traveling-column design, automatic tool changer, and 40-taper spindle.
Cost-Effective Alternative to Thoriated Tungsten Electrodes
Comprised of three scientifically balanced oxides that promote migration and evaporation rates, Diamond Ground Products’ thorium-free Tri-Mix tungsten electrodes are a cost-effective and safe alternative to Wolfram Industries’ 2% thoriated tungsten electrodes.
Purge Unit Protects Electrical Equipment in Class I Hazardous Areas
When used with the company’s PV-2 spark-arresting vent, the YZ102 from Best Purging Systems expedites purging by supplying, regulating, and monitoring gas supply to an enclosure. Available in three mounting positions.
Robotic Welding Station Increases Strength by Ensuring Consistency
The biggest challenge to achieving a strong bond when welding thick walls are discrepancies between the CAD drawing and the in-process weld. Pemamek’s laser scan-driven control system overcomes this difficulty by automatically correcting weld path based on groove geometry.
How to Prevent Common Causes of Poor Weld Wire Feeding
Identifying the culprit can be complicated. Luckily, premature consumables failure, burnbacks, and bird-nesting are often easily resolved – so you’ll soon be welding again.
