Solutions to Improve Aluminum Weld Quality and Strength
Miller and Hobart offer equipment and filler metal solutions to improve aluminum weld quality, and are showcasing these products at FABTECH 2015. Learn from Blaine Guy, welding engineer, about the benefits of combining Miller machines with Hobart wire and TIG cut lengths. Visit booth 14032 for more details.
Video Transcript
Hi, my name is Blaine Guy. I’m a welding engineer here at the Miller Hobart space at Fabtech 2015. This year, the area that I’m in now, we have four live welding demonstrations, each of which offering the Miller Hobart solution to benefit our end user customers.
Behind me, we have our aluminum live welding demonstration where we have Miller power sources being their inverter-based, Dynasty 350 and 210 and the filler metal we’re presenting are the Hobart part of the solution would be the 4943 TIG cut length aluminum. So the solution of these two products together would be the increased technology in the inverter-based TIG welding power sources, which offer excellent weldability, along with the 4000 series aluminum, which typically offers very, very good weldability compared to another common aluminum, which would be 5000 series alloys.
Typically, the only downside of the 4000 series aluminum is that you do lose strength compared to the 5000. But this 4943 is actually a patented Hobart product. It’s the first aluminum patent in 20 years where we do offer a much higher strength 4000 series product that kind of negates that negative that was always known in the past with a typical 4043 4000 series aluminum. So if you do have time at Fabtech, please come see us in the Miller Hobart area. We’d love to see you.