The filler material is worked into the weld pool with elegant movements by a steady hand. centimeter by centimetre. meter by meter. With a lot of concentration and professional sensitivity. The result is beautiful, perfect welds. We are talking about TIG welding, the supreme discipline among welding processes. If you want to work professionally here, you need not only profound knowledge and experience, but also a lot of manual dexterity. Until now - because from now on, TIG welding will be significantly easier. But why is that?
Quality and TIG - a perfect symbiosis
Did you know that TIG welding is the only process with which all metals can be welded with high quality? For example, it is always the first choice for welding work when joining bacteria-resistant aluminum or stainless steel containers in the food industry. In other words, where hygiene not only depends on cleanliness, but also on clean welds. The disadvantage: Not every component is suitable for automated welding. This means that people will still be needed for welding today and in the future. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer specialists who have mastered manual TIG welding professionally. A shortage of skilled workers is now a major problem among welders - especially when it comes to TIG.
Not everyone can weld TIG properly
MIG/MAG welding is easy to learn. Here, a filler material or welding wire serves as the electrode that ignites the arc. This melts continuously during welding and is automatically fed in via a so-called wire feed. You can support the guide hand that guides the torch with the other hand and in this way better stabilize the torch position and direction. The situation is completely different with TIG welding, where the so-called tungsten electrode does not melt and the welding filler has to be added with the free hand - either drop by drop or continuously. In order to avoid unprofessional pore formation, the welding wire, which is fed in as a rod, must remain in the welding gas bell at all times. A demanding undertaking that requires a great deal of experience and a steady hand. As many practice hours are important.
Conserve resources and still get good results.
In times of a shortage of skilled workers, the iWave TIG welding machine with its intelligent TIG DynamicWire wire feed control helps even inexperienced users to achieve good results relatively quickly. The compensating active wire feed provides the necessary safety and ensures a high quality of the weld seams. Because the wire isn't constantly moving back and forth, consumables such as the torch body, torch cap, and collet wear less, resulting in longer life.