Many people do welding work for a living. Welding means pieces of materials are joined together. A welder can join certain metals like steel aluminum, brass, stainless steel, plastic or polymer. Welder also means equipment used for welding process. There are various types of welding like Arc welding, MIG Welding, TIG Welding etc. MIG (Metal [...]
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Overview of Metal Inert Gas (MIG) Welding
May 1st, 2009 
admin There are many types of welding that are available to learn today and MIG is one of those types. This type of welding dates back to 1940s when it was discovered to weld aluminum and other types of non-ferrous metals. Many people refer to MIG welding as GMAW or gas metal arc welding. Often these [...]
Choosing the Correct Welding Tools for Developing a Smaller or Larger Business
April 24th, 2009 admin Special catalogs, magazines, Internet sites or professional companies provide the assistance or support one may need in choosing the correct welding tools for developing a smaller or larger business. There are several selection criteria that should be respected in order not to make the mistake of getting the wrong equipment. What is the extent of [...]
Wire Feed Welding Machines
January 7th, 2009 admin Wire feed welding machines are also known as mig welding machines or for short, a mig welder. Regardless of what you call the machine they all have the same basic features. Going by the description of the name, you need to feed wire. As this wire is feeding, electricity melts it and the base metal [...]
The Art of Arc Welding
October 13th, 2008 admin Welding is used as a fabrication process in every small and large-scale industry. This is an efficient, economical and dependable process of joining two or more parts of metal. The process finds its applications in open air, underwater and outer space. Among the welding processes, arc welding is widely used mainly because of its [...]
Common Problems you May Run Across When Operating Tig Welders
July 13th, 2008 admin Tig welders are primarily used for the joining together of two pieces of metal so as to create one cohesive unit, all with the help with intense heat that causes the metal to melt on edges and then cool compactly. Tig welders create welds that are superior in terms of appearance and quality, argon is [...]
Beginners Guide to Welding
March 16th, 2008 admin Welding has been around for centuries, though not in the forms most commonly used today. One of the first welding processes ever used was known as forge welding. Forge welding attempts to join two metals through a process of heating, and then pounding and striking. It’s what blacksmiths did. But since then, there have been [...]
Rudiments Of Stick Welding
January 19th, 2008 admin In welding jargon stick welding is a nickname for Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) or Arc Welding. The name stick welding is the result of the stick like appearance of the electrode that forms the crust of arc welding. There are 5 most basic aspects that can be very influential in deciding the effectiveness of [...]
Career Scopes Of Welding & Fabrication Technology
October 24th, 2007 admin We are all well aware that manufacturing and construction are never ending processes. As long as the world exists, there will be construction of some kind and manufacturing of some kind of products. In turn, as long as these two processes exist, there will be welding and fabrication. With more and more buildings erected each [...]
What Are The Guidelines For Welding Cast Iron
October 11th, 2007 admin Welding cast iron calls for some special procedure. Welding cast iron is a challenging task and there can be no two opinions about that. Cast iron, unlike most other steels, has much greater carbon content at 2 to 4 percent. This causes most cast iron to be brittle making it difficult to weld. If the [...]
