If you were to ask the majority of trades people who do fabrication, they would tell you that tack welds are used as temporary welds to hold the metal together until proper weld can be put down.

Record any incoming material variation. This included the square tube’s straightness, edge prep (the saw cut quality), as well as the radii of the tube’s outside corners. Every tube received from the ...

Welding sheetmetal together makes burning thick metal together seem like a smiley walk in your favorite off-road shop. Welding sheetmetal is scary and daunting. Why, you may ask. Well, there are ...

Welding thin sheet metal can be challenging because you need to obtain adequate fusion while preventing distortion and burnthrough. The key skill is to control the heat across the sheet metal to ...

This shows a plug tack-welded into place, after using a step drill to remove a porous area in the weld. Last time we looked at some of the causes of weld porosity, and some ways to prevent it. This ...