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What is Stick Welding?

You may or may not know that there are over 100 different welding processes used to weld everything from plastics to composites to metal. However, when someone thinks of welding, you tend to think of metal, right? Let’s take a look at one of the oldest welding processes, Shielded Metal Arc Welding. Shielded Metal Arc Welding – also referred to ...

4 Benefits of Choosing a Skilled Trades Career

Deciding what you want to do with your life can be daunting and scary. It’s a big decision. The first step in the right direction is to figure out things you like to do and then see if you can make a career out of them. You may feel pressure that the career has to come from a traditional 4-year ...

Where A Career in Welding Can Take You

Does anyone know of someone who has seen the Seven Wonders of the World and then some? Been in the most desolate lands on the planet, whether hot or cold? How about someone who escapes death day after day due to specific safety training only select groups of people receive? Do you know anyone who makes 3,500 degree molten metal ...

Reviving Blue Collar Work: 4 Myths About the Skilled Trades

What do you think about when you think about skilled trades or blue-collar work? A thriving career that allows you to get your hands dirty and do what you love to do? If that’s not what you think of, it should be. Blue-collar is defined as “a descriptive used to describe a manual worker, ” aka workers who aren’t afraid ...

The Wide World of Welding | Welded Art

When you think of welding, what do you think of? The process used to build bridges, repair fences, construct skyscrapers? The answer really is infinite. (You can see our previous post to get a picture of where we’d be without welding) Welding opens up a world of possibilities, even artistic ones. Many sculptors turn to welding to construct their works of ...

A World Without Welding

Whether you want to admit it or not, everyone has used something created by a welder. You handle things created by a metal craftsman regularly. When you get up and start your car in the morning, or when you have friends over for a bar-b-que, you have utilized something created by a welder. Or when you look at the weather ...

Welding Processes – The Finale

Have you been enjoying National Welding Month? We sure have! We’ve covered Shielded Metal Arc Welding and Gas Metal Arc Welding, now it’s time for Flux Cored Arc Welding and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding. Pull up your welding hoods, and read below for all you need to know on the remaining welding processes! Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) – This ...

Common Welding Processes – Part 1.

What exactly is Welding? Before we actually get into the description of the different welding processes it is important to understand exactly what welding is, The American Welding Society defines welding as: “A materials joining process which produces coalescence of materials by heating them to suitable temperatures with or without the application of pressure or by the application of pressure ...

The Importance of Air Filters

Have you ever wondered why we use air filters in our indoor heating and air conditioning units and why that little light starts flashing on our thermostat saying “replace air filter”? We use indoor air filters to improve indoor air quality. The air filter aids in the removal of particulate matter, which promotes a healthier environment. Some common types of ...