Titanium welding

Product Presentation

Trailing ShieldsTitanium Welding

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ARGWELD® Trailing Shields

ARGWELD® Trailing Shields

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Main Features

ARGWELD® Trailing Shields

■ Designed for effective gas coverage when welding titanium alloys

■ Ensures welds are left bright and shiny and eliminates both discolouration & oxidation

■ For use on flat sheet or plate & internal or external welds on tubes, pipes, tanks, vessels, heat exchangers etc.

■ Fit any make of GTAW/Tig ,PAW/Plasma, or GMAW/Mig welding torch for manual or automatic welding

■ Reduces gas consumption, saves re-work & eliminates wasted material costs, due to oxidation

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Main features continued

ARGWELD® Trailing Shields

■ Reduces gas consumption, saves re-work & eliminates wasted material costs, due to oxidation

■ Flexible silicone side walls to create closed inert gas chamber

■ Replaceable silicone rubber side walls

■ Auxiliary hoses for greater shield gas coverage where required

■ Triple mesh gas distribution system non turbulent gas flow

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Potential Customers

■ Aero engine manufacturing and maintenance companies

■ Boiler, Heat Exchanger, Vacuum Tank, Cryotank manufacturers

■ Semi conductor, petrochemical, food, dairy piping fabricators

■ Racing and sports car manufactures

■ Every titanium alloy fabricator wishing to save money by dramatically reducing cleaning costs

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Example

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A typical costing of a weld with trailing shield vs one without:

36'' Ø Tank, vessel or pipe

UK List price: Trailing Shield for a 36'' Ø tank… £196

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Example

ARGWELD® Trailing Shields

36'' Ø Pipe/Tankwelded with no TRAILING

SHIELD used

36'' Ø Pipe/Tankwelded with an ARGWELD®

TRAILING SHIELD

Grinding time1 hr (est.) £30.00 £0.00

Cleaning material costs £10.00 £0.00

Disposal costs £10.00 £0.00

Grinding consumables £10.00 £0.00

Administration costs* £100.00 £10.00 (1 product only)

Cleaning time 1 hr (est.) subject to size of weld.

£30.00 £0.00

Cost of ARGWELD®

Trailing Shield

£0.00 £196.00Once only purchase

Total costs £190.00 (every weld) £206 (first weld only)Approximately £10 for all

Subsequent welds

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Fast Payback

■ 2 Welds achieves payback

■ The use of a trailing shield of some kind for titanium welding is almost mandatory, for the applications where the product cannot be placed inside a Welding Enclosure

■ When welding smaller titanium components, that could be placed in a Welding Chamber of some kind, Trailing Shields might be dramatically more cost effective than the use of a Welding Chamber

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Automatic inline seam welder

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Front: Trailing shield, homemade. Rear: Argweld® Trailing Shield.

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Homemade Trailing Shield

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Trailing Shields – Internal Welding

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Trailing shield for internal welding of large diameter pipes and tubes, tanks and vessels

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Trailing Shields – Family shot

Family of shields for Automatic Welding Machines. All have secondary gas shield delivery.

Trailing Shields – External Welding

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Trailing shield for the external welding of pipes and tubes

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Trailing Shield – Fitted to Mig torch

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How a Trailing Shield can be used to shield the outside of a circumferential weld while being welded from the inside.

(Inset bottom right : finished weld with no discoloration)

Trailing shield – Automatic Welding

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Trailing Shield for automatic welding machine used for flat plate(Note dual shield gas supply)

A) 250 mm/10” approx Body lengthB) 320 mm/12.6” approx Length including gasketC) 50 mm/2” approx Body widthD) 75 mm/3” approx Width including gasket

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Inside view Trailing Shields

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Inside view of a Trailing Shield, showing gauze mesh for uniform gas distribution and high temperature resistant silicone rubber

replaceable skirts.

ARGWELD®

Thank You

2013

All photos courtesy of Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Limited, UK.