Welding Equipment

Welding supplies and equipment includes the various arc welding tools used to join metals through fusion. In addition to melting the base metal, arc welders will heat a filler metal which is added to the joint to form a weld pool; this is molten metal that eventually cools to form a joint that is as strong or stronger than the base metal. Some arc welding methods include: shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), also known as stick welding; gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), also known as TIG welding; gas metal arc welding (GMAW), also known as MIG welding, and Flux-cored arc welding (FCAW).