ARC WELDERS

Known as stick or electrode welding. A relatively slower process that requires a moderately high level of skill. Best for welding on thicker rougher metals using a flux coated stick electrode scratched across the work piece to generate an arc. The arc causes a molten weld puddle on the work piece and adds additional metal from the stick electrode fusing the work pieces together. Arc welding produces much heat build-up and as the stick electrodes melt down, they need to be replaced. The weld must be cleaned when completed due to the flux electrode forming a slag blanket over the weld bead. Ideal users are the more experienced home hobbyist, farm, fabricators, maintenance repair & industrial.

MIG / FLUX CORE WELDERS

Gas Metal Arc Welding, Flux Core Arc Welding.
As with stick electrode arc welding, MIG wire completes the electrical circuit creating an arc. The MIG process uses a continuous wire electrode to form the arc and adds this wire to the molten weld puddle on the work piece. A spool of weld wire is constantly driven through the MIG gun by a feeding system, so unlike arc welding there is no need to constantly replace electrodes. MIG welding process (GMAW) requires the use of a shielding gas, which reduces spatter and produces very clean welds with no slag blanket.

Flux Cored MIG welding (FCAW) uses a weld wire with a center core of flux which eliminates the need for gas shielding and offers easier, portable welding outdoors and on dirtier metals. MIG and Flux Welding are both very fast welding processes, which require a moderate level of skill. This process of welding allows you to weld from the thinness of metals to thick metals. Assorted models to be used by D.I.Y, home hobbyist, automotive, bodywork, garages, farm, maintenance, repair, fabricators & industrial users.

OXYGEN FUEL GAS WELDING

Oxyfuel gas welding (OEW) is a group of welding processes which join metals by heating with a fuel gas flame or flares with or without the application of pressure and with or without the use of filler metal. OFW includes any welding operation that makes use of a fuel gas combined with oxygen as a heating medium. The process involves the melting of the base metal and a filler metal, if used, by means of the flame produced at the tip of a welding torch. Fuel gas and oxygen are mixed in the proper proportions in a mixing chamber which may be part of the welding tip assembly. Molten metal from the plate edges and filler metal, if used, intermix in a common molten pool. Upon cooling, they coalesce to form a continuous piece.

There are three major processes within this group: oxyacetylene welding, oxyhydrogen welding, and pressure gas welding. There is one process of minor industrial significance, known as air acetylene welding, in which heat is obtained from the combustion of acetylene with air. Welding with methylacetone-propadiene gas (MAPP gas) is also an oxyfuel procedure.

The equipment used in OFW is low in cost, usually portable, and versatile enough to be used for a variety of related operations, such as bending and straightening, preheating, post heating, surface, braze welding, and torch brazing. With relatively simple changes in equipment, manual and mechanized oxygen cutting operations can be performed. Metals normally welded with the oxyfuel process include steels, especially low alloy steels, and most nonferrous metals. The process is generally not used for welding refractory or reactive metals.

OFW is ideally suited to the welding of thin sheet, tubes, and small diameter pipe. It is also used for repair welding. Thick section welds, except for repair work, are not economical.

PLASMA CUTTERS

The purpose of plasma cutting is to cut most metals fast, clean, quick, with no heat build-up or metal distortion. Plasma cutting is a process, which severs metals by using a constricted arc to melt a small area of the work piece. A high-velocity jet of ionized gas removes molten material from the work piece. Plasma cutting requires the use of compressed air normally supplied from an air compressor. The plasma cutting process requires a moderate level of skill. Ideal for use in automotive, fabrication, muffler shops, farm, fleet & sheet metal shops.

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