May 1, 2008
Features
New Options for Welding
Advances in two technologies – hybrid laser welding and friction stir welding metals – were recently introduced...
Selecting a GTAW Torch… and Making it Last!
Companies and individual welders take great care – and rightly so – when it comes to choosing and using a power source...
Providing Personal Protection Gear
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a final rule for Employer Payment for Personal Protective Equipment in November that specifies that employers must provide personal protective equipment to workers at no cost to the employee...
Armor Plate Fabricator Targets Quality
Since its founding in Kings Mountain, NC, in 1989, Ultra Machine & Fabrication (www.ufm1.com) has been dedicated to metal fabrication specializing in armor plate...
Shop Stories
Equipment Selection, Organization Creates Maximum Throughput for Utah-Based Company
ITEC approaches each of its manufacturing challenges with common sense. It looks at its processes from front to back, it examines each step and comes up with new and innovative ways to streamline its processes...
Meeting Pump Shaft Manufacturing Challenges Using Friction Welding
The challenges presented by material price versus performance in pump shaft manufacturing get tougher with each price increase for raw materials. ...
Departments
Technology that keeps welding dynamic
While scholars can trace welding back to prehistoric times, when bits of metal were lap-jointed and pressure welded together and when blacksmiths learned to forge weld iron...
Navy to Electron Beam Weld Subs
The U.S. Navy is planning to replace traditional welding with electron beam welding on its Virginia Class Submarines to reduce manufacturing costs and improve the quality of the welds. ...
ITT Acquires Kaliburn Inc.
ITT Corp. (www.itt.com) said it has acquired Kaliburn Inc. through its wholly-owned subsidiary Cleveland Motion Controls Inc., which is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. ...
D/F Machine Sold and Remains in the Same Family
Del Moerke Jr. and his son, Steven Moerke, purchased D/F Machine Specialties Inc. from other members of the Moerke family...
Focus on the Internet
Penton’s Welding Magazine has launched a new websites that brings the immediacy of the Internet video experience to machining and manufacturing...
No Twisters or Swingers Allowed
In Part I, we examined the behavior of weldments that are subject to torsion, and learned that under such conditions, the designer should use closed sections wherever possible...
Welding zirconium requires care and attention
I would like to know what steps I need to take to properly weld zirconium, and what gas to use, pure argon or helium gas?...
New brazing, soldering materials
TurboTorch has expanded its product line-up to include new, high quality brazing alloys, solders and fluxes for a variety of applications...
150-amp consumable set
Hypertherm has added a 150-amp consumable set to its Centricut brand...
Pipe, angle-iron roll bender
The Ercolina CE40MR3 angle roll from CML USA Inc. (www.ercolina-usa.com) is capable of bending a wide range of tube, pipe and profiles to a centerline radius as small as four times diameter of the work piece...
Flap wheels for aggressive cutting
Tiger and Vortec flap wheels now are available from Weiler Corp. (www.weilercorp.com) for more aggressive cutting action. The premium line of Tiger flap wheels provide a high cut rate and a long life and are good for medium to high-production environments....
