Installing your mig welding wire is really quite simple. The first step is to make sure that you are using a very high quality mig welding wire. Why? You can have so many troubles with mig welding wire not feeding, burning back, excess spatter, birds nesting and so on.
Assuming there is no old spool [...]
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Mig Welding Basics: Mig Wire Installation
May 5th, 2009 
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Plasma Cutter History
December 18th, 2008 admin The plasma cutting process has been around for more than 50 years starting during the World War II era. The war demanded a faster and more reliable way to improve aircraft development, thus the plasma cutter was born allowing a protective barrier of inert gas around an electric arc to protect the weld from [...]
Mig Welding Basics: Tack Welding
August 29th, 2008 admin Tack welding is used throughout the welding and fabrication industry. Even the most basic welding jobs at home will require you to do “tack welds”.
Fabrication and welding techniques call for the need of tack welding. Manufactured weldments and components require tack welding to hold assemblies and parts together during initial fit up and [...]
Introduction to Plasma Cutters
October 1st, 2007 admin Plasma cutters can cut steel and other metals of different thicknesses using a plasma torch. Plasma can also be used for plasma arc welding and other applications.
Plasma cutters are available in various shapes and sizes. All plasma cutters function on the same principle and are constructed around roughly the same design. Plasma cutter
Safety Tips For Gas Welding
January 12th, 2007 admin Storage and Handling
After finishing gas welding, Always keep gas and oxygen cylinders with minimum of 20 feet distance between them. Or, divide them with a right firewall.
As the cylinders can caught fire easily, keep the flammable and combustible materials away from cylinders.
Store cylinders away from physical injure, heat, and tampering.
Always [...]
How to Arc Weld and Stick Weld
April 24th, 2006 admin Learning how to weld is not as hard as you might think.
All you have to do is simply follow a few basic steps, to get that welding down pat. It’s like baking a cake or building a house. You need to follow a set way of doing things.
There are a few basic and easy [...]
Introduction to Plastic Welding
September 26th, 2005 admin Plastic welding and spot welding – both are almost similar to each other. There is a difference noted. In plastic welding, heat is supplied through convection of the pincher tips, instead of conduction. The two plastic pieces are brought together. At the time of welding, a jet of hot air is liberated. This melts [...]
Mig Welding Basics: Mig Welding Machines
January 30th, 2005 admin Mig welding machines can be broken up into four basics main parts or areas that are very critical to the successful operation of the machine.
The first area I will talk about is the power supply. The power supply on any mig welding machine is a key area in which controls many variables. Some of [...]
