Creteheads. Owen Blevins, ConcreteAnswers.TV bringing you the Internet’s most passionate show about concrete plants and equipment. Today were headed out west to Blair, Nebraska, CON-E-COs factory, where were going to listen to Bruce Gregory from Lincoln Electric - yes, the welding folks - talk to us about weld integrity. Let me tell you before we get into it, you’re going to be blown away with the amount of depth and information Bruce is going to share with you on welding. You’re going to find out why you want your plant welded with Lincoln Electric equipment and why CON-E-CO chose them as their sole-source provider of welding equipment and welding material, so check it out. Good afternoon, I’m Bruce Gregory with the Lincoln Electric Company. I’m the technical representative out of Omaha, Nebraska and we’re here in Blair, Nebraska at CON-E-CO, which many years ago CON-E-Co elected to go with the premium performance Power Wave welding systems with the Power Wave 455 and Power Feed 10 Series feeders. And then more recently they’ve settled on the Lincoln Electric Invertec® V350 probe and Maxtrack Drive LF-74 feed systems. The advantage of both of these being inverter power sources is that inverter power sources allows us to engineer a welding output that gives exclusive and very precise output characteristics for the ideal welding arc for any given welding situation with the MIG welding. In fact, CON-E-CO is using the pulse arc program for their pulse arc MIG welding and the advantage of the pulse arc MIG welding is that it allows us to have virtually spatter-free welds. It puts down a spray transfer thereby reducing the tendency of cold lapping or lack of fusion and enables the welding operator to more easily put down a weld of high integrity so that the final product is to be assured a most reliable, strong, robust weld quality. So with the inverter and the pulse welding that’s one advantage of the pulse welding. The other advantage is less clean-up there’s very little spatter with the pulse welding process so there’s very little clean-up in the post-weld clean-up process and there’s also less weld-fume in the welding environment because were not vaporizing off as much of the filler metal. So with less weld-fume it’s a little bit cleaner atmosphere for the welding operator to work within. The other advantage of pulse welding is, again, the lower heat input tends to cause less distortion, bending and flexing and changing, of the welded structure. Alright, so there you have it. Bruce, you are a welding deity! Amazing stuff from the folks at Lincoln Electric. CON-E-CO’s factory, obviously, you can see now why they chose to go with Lincoln Electric. We’re going to have 2 or 3 more on this series on welding. You guys are going to be pumped when you see some of this stuff coming down the road here. Really fascinating stuff and again, check out Lincoln Electrics website, check out our website, ConcreteAnswers.TV and thanks to our sponsor, Mid-Atlantic Concrete Equipment, maconcrete.com. As always, well see you soon.
Less fume?
Thats a BIG claim and one that should be proven. Remember welding fume is toxic. Personally I wouldnt go breathing Mr Gregorys fume any more than anyone elses.