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What Are The Basic Tools and Machines Lab Equipments Necessary for Welding?

In the basics of welding, you need a welder, electrodes, feeds, and safety gear to get started. But before starting anything with these Workshop Tools and Machines Lab Equipments, this is better to take a class or to find an expert who can teach you how to weld. In that case, if you fail to learn basic safety requirements, you can burn yourself or it may damage your eyes. The process of welding joints is done by melting two pieces of metal at a sean to create a joint. Here is some important basic equipment that you need for welding.

TIG and MIG welders:

The most common welder that you need in basic projects of a homeowner is the stick welder. This is also known as a shielded metal arc welder. People prefer it because this is easy to buy and it doesn't need any special environment for using. But this electrodes in a stick welder requires frequent replacement when it is compared with other forms of welding. It may include gas tungsten machines, TIG and gas metal arc welder which is also known as MIG welders in the Workshop Tools and Machines Lab Equipments. You may also need some sort of gas feed in this type of welder.

Charged electrode:

The electrode is the tip of the tool in Workshop Tools and Machines Lab Equipments,  that passes current from the welder to the material for welding by making it so hot so that it becomes liquid. In the cases of the stick and MIG welders, the particular type of metal and heat is used to melt it that is required to drive the needed electrode tip. But in a TIG welder, the electrode tip is made of non-consumable tungsten and it doesn't require any replacement.  

Wire and electrode feed:

Some welds require a feed to strengthen the joint for the reason of geometry or weakness of the weld. Stick welding uses here an electrode to feed, MIG welding often uses a wire feed. But the TIG welding uses a feed because of its non-consumable nature.

Other tools:

You can find most welders to use an angle grinder to help in smoothing out the joints, wire brushes and to clean metal surfaces or abrade them before welding, a chipping slag hammer, C-clamps, ball peen hammer, electrode tip cleaners, flint strikers needle nose and linesmen cutting pliers. Other Workshop Tools and Machines Lab Equipments,  are needed here for cold chisels, flathead and round files, level, and squares.

These are the basic tools that are needed for welding. As it is discussed that to ensure safety you need to know about the uses of this equipment otherwise it may cause any type of dangerous situation.