Tony Hufford
Articles by Tony Hufford
Tips for Choosing Abrasives for Multipass Welding Applications
Cleaning and grinding multipass welds requires careful abrasive selection that best matches the weld pass and desired outcomes to optimize efficiency, reduce costs and maximize operator safety. Here is a review of the types of abrasives and some best practices to optimize results.
Choose Your Cutting Wheel Wisely to Reduce Costs in Pipe Operations
Lowest-cost wheels are not always the best option for cutting tube and pipe. The quality and expense of a cut impacts the overall quality and expense of the whole piece in many ways – including some you may not have thought about – that all hit your bottom line.
The Best Tools for Cutting, Grinding and Finishing Stainless Steel
Because stainless steel is expected to yield specific performance characteristics, it is typically used on higher valued parts. When working with stainless steel, never cut corners when selecting or storing tools for the job. The wrong choice can damage the material and may end up costing you a lot more in the long term in rework, scrap, and lost efficiency in production. Using some of the tips here can help you narrow down the choices.
Choosing Consumables for Manual Metal Cutting
Because resinoid bonded abrasive cutting wheels offer portability and affordability, they are popular for many hand-held metal cutting applications. Here are some things you must know about them and how they should be used to help extend their product life, benefit your operator safety, and improve your shop productivity and efficiency.
Best Practices for Surface Preparation and Cleaning in Pipeline Applications
Surface preparation and cleaning is just one part of the large process of oil and gas pipeline welding, but it’s a step that can have a significant impact on the productivity, quality and efficiency of the job. Proper preparation and cleaning in pipeline welding applications can help extend tool life, benefit operator safety and improve productivity and efficiency.
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