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Jay Ginder
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products
Filler Metal Manufacturing Center 801 Wilson Ave.
Hanover, PA 17331
- From The Fabricator
5 things you need to know about modern stick welding
- By Dwight Myers and Jay Ginder
- Aug 29, 2016
- Arc Welding
- Article
Shielded metal arc welding doesn't grab the headlines with regular announcements about technological advancements, but that doesn't mean it's not an important welding process for industry. Here are 5 things that will remind you why stick welding is a staple in heavy fabrication settings around the world.
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Storing stick electrodes
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Aug 21, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Q: I recently saw a comment that regular stick electrodes could be overdried in ovens to the point of causing poor weld performance. Is this true? We store all our electrodes, including low-hydrogen, at 135 to 140 degrees F at all times and have not noticed any problems. We are located in Arizona,...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Examining weld cracking, Part II—Stress, hydrogen cracking
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jul 16, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Editor’s Note: This is the second column in a two-part series. Q: I work in a midsized job shop, and we weld with the FCAW, GMAW, and SMAW processes. Occasionally we encounter weld cracking issues. What causes weld cracking, and what can I do to prevent it? A: Stress cracking is similar to hot...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Examining weld cracking, Part I—Hot cracking
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jul 15, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Editor’s Note: This is the first article of a two-part series. Q: I work in a midsized job shop, and we weld with the FCAW, GMAW, and SMAW processes. Occasionally we encounter weld cracking issues. What causes weld cracking, and what can I do to prevent it? A: To ensure that the measures you...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Selecting the correct diameter for flux-cored wire
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jul 9, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
I work in a large manufacturing fabrication shop where we weld subassemblies and then fit and weld them together to complete the machines we manufacture. Currently we use gas-shielded, flux-cored wires from 0.045 to 0.09375 in. in diameter. At what point is a small-diameter wire too inefficient,...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Combating overheating in work clamps
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jul 8, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Q: I weld in a large pressure vessel shop and use many welding processes, including SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, and SAW. Regardless of the process, our work clamps always get very hot. We’ve even had some arcing from the ground clamp. We have welded several grounds to the workpiece to remedy this problem,...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Combating dull weld appearance with metal-cored stainless steel wire
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jul 7, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Q: We fabricate 401 stainless steel components and have considered using metal-cored stainless steel consumables. One of the issues with metal-cored consumables is the dull appearance of the weld compared to the appearance achieved with a solid wire. What can we do to maintain a clean or shiny...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Nixing porosity during weld start
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jul 3, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Q: I work for a job shop that fabricates and welds process piping for various applications. The pipes, made from A106-88a carbon steel and 304 and 316 stainless steel, are welded using GMAW, FCAW, and GTAW. We have been experiencing porosity, primarily on the weld starts. Our shielding gas is a...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Welding heat treatable steels
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jul 2, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Q: Our shop won a contract that requires welding 4130 steel. I’ve been told this is a heat-treatable steel. Can you tell me which different welding procedures have to be used to weld this material? A: The most commonly welded heat-treatable steels are 4130, 4340, and 8630. However, any steel...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Horizontal fillet test troubles
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jul 1, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Q: For a recently acquired large structural job, we have had to qualify a single-pass 5/16-in. fillet using 0.045-in. E71T-9M flux-cored wire. We are having trouble passing the horizontal fillet test. When performing the weld break test on the horizontal fillet weld, there is incomplete penetration...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Welding weathering-grade material with a nickel-containing filler
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jun 27, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Q: I work for a structural steel fabricator and we are getting ready to start work on a bridge job that specifies A588 material. We have worked on this material in the past using a weathering-grade filler metal. Our engineer has recommended we use a 1 percent nickel electrode. Is this right? A:...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Issues with incomplete fusion
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jun 27, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Q: Recently our shop started using metal-cored wire. On one side we perform full-penetration welds to D1.1 structural code on 3/4- to 1-1/2-in.-thick plate. On the second side we carbon-arc-gouge to clean the metal and then we do a magnetic particle inspection before welding. We encounter two...
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Figuring out FCAW Charpy V-notch failure
- By Jay Ginder and Jerry Mathison
- Jun 26, 2014
- Consumables
- Article
Q: We performed an AWS D1.1 procedure qualification test using gas-shielded FCAW. We used a 0.052-in. E71T-9C electrode with 100 percent CO2 shielding at 200 amps and 26 V on 1-in. thick plate. We used a preheat and interpass temperature of 70 degrees F. Our pass layer sequence was three full...
- From The Welder
Welding heat treatable steels
- By Jerry Mathison and Jay Ginder
- Mar 14, 2011
- Consumables
- Article
Our shop won a contract that requires welding 4130 steel. I've been told this is a heat-treatable steel. Can you tell me which different welding procedures have to be used to weld this material?
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- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 03/05/2024
- Running Time:
- 65:35
After Ludlow Manufacturing Inc. (LMI) received The Fabricator's 2024 Industry Award, Todd Ludlow, founder and president of the...
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