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News Release from: Spatter Shield Australia | Subject: Weld spatter shielding
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 August 2005
Web page is devoted to reducing weld
spatter
A whole page of the Spatter Shield web site is dedicated to real life case studies of companies that have reduced spatter within their welding processes and saved costs.
Spatter Shield has announced the launch of its new web site Our business is Welding Spatter also known as anti spatter, slag and weld splatter to name a few
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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As many of you would be aware, weld spatter are the molten balls of metal that stick to the gas shroud of the weld gun and therefore blocking gas flow and in turn you are forced to either replace you gas shroud or keep cleaning it with a pair pliers.
When the spatter sticks to the weld site you are forced to either grind, scrape or chisel the spatter off the work piece and as a result risk damaging your welded part.
We have dedicated a whole page of our web site to real life case studies of companies that have reduced spatter within their welding processes.
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Free trial offer shows how to reduce weld spatter
If you are scraping, grinding or chiselling weld spatter from weldments and is costing your company money, there is a free trial offer being made of an inline anti spatter system.
Anti-weld spatter product saves finish costs
Anti-weld spatter product ha s been introduced for applications in which the amount of anti spatter generated is not excessive and where work piece temperatures remain relatively low.
The case studies have all been produced by the companies themselves that have seen benefits in using the Spatter Shield In Line Anti Spatter System and the Spatter Shield Anti Spatter Products.
* Real life case study Number 1, car parts manufacturer - this customer had serious problem with spatter on the work piece.
Most of spatters adhered on the work piece and welders had to be spent with a lot of time just to remove spatters.
After installing Spatter Shield, a dramatic difference was observed immediately.
Average size of spatters became much smaller and most of spatters on work piece could be removed just by scraping lightly.
The customer was using a welding robot to MIG weld soft steel using MG 50T 1.2mm wire and 100% CO2 shielding gas at 15 litre/min.
The OTC welding power source - Almega Auto Robot-Almega - was rated at 160A/20V.
This customer was a second tier suppler to the automotive industry and the parts where not acceptable as they had much spatter on them and the company had to spend much time in resources and money to remove the weld spatter to make it acceptable.
We where invited to the customer to see if we could improve the reject rate.
We ran trials on their welding robot with and without the Spatter Shield products.
The results where that once we introduced the Spatter Shield Inline Anti Spatter System, the spatter balls either fell off.
Or where lightly scraped and where removed.
You can see the full story on the website.
In the article we also show where the Spatter Shield products where fitted on the welding robot and also pictures of our test results with the welded part.
The above case study and others which include: * Spring manufacturers.
* Suspension manufacturers.
* Exhaust manufacturers.
* Tractor parts.
These are all on our web site with the technical setups and pictures of the parts welded.
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