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News Release from: ESAB | Subject: Shield-Bright stainless cored wires
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 01 February 2008
Wires offer easy welding
The slag from Shield-Bright stainless cored wires is self-lifting or easily detached, leaving behind clean, flat weld surface with a good penetration and very smooth wetting onto the plate edges.
ESAB's latest Shield-Bright stainless cored wires are rutile types with an excellent weldability on conventional nonpulsing power sources under Ar/CO2 mixed gas and CO2 shielding gas Always operating in the smooth spray arc mode, they are welder-friendly wires with a very low spatter level
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The slag is self-lifting or easily detached, leaving behind clean, flat weld surface with a good penetration and very smooth wetting onto the plate edges.
The all-positional Shield-Bright wires have a fast freezing slag.
This allows deposition rates in positional welding that cannot be equalled by stick electrodes or solid wires.
Typical positional welding defects, such as lack of fusion and slag inclusions are avoided.
The Shield-Bright X-tra range is suitable for downhand and horizontal vertical fillet welding, having a slow freezing fluid slag to allow high travel speeds.
Shield-Bright and Shield-Bright X-tra wires are welded using simple nonpulsing power sources and parameter settings.
They can be welded in standard Ar/15-25%CO2 mixed gas and also provide low-carbon weld metal in CO2.
Welds are flat to concave with an excellent wetting and have a positive penetration.
This is particularly beneficial in areas with high cosmetic or corrosion requirements such as the food processing and paper and pulp industries.
Light brushing is normally sufficient to obtain a clean weld and, unlike solid wires, no silica islands are produced, so time is saved on cleaning the welds.
Welds have an excellent X-ray quality and one-sided root runs in open joints can be welded on ceramic weld metal supports at high speeds. Request a free brochure from ESAB ...
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