Stainless Steel Welding Wire
Stainless steel welding wire can be divided into stainless steel solid cored wire and stainless steel flux cored wire. We focus on providing SS solid wire, hereafter referred to as stainless welding wire.
SS solid wire can be used for both inert gas shielded welding (TIG, MIG welding) and submerged arc welding. SS MIG welding can not only achieve efficient welding, but also easily realize welding automation. It is widely used in surfacing welding and thin plate welding. The chemical composition of MIG welding wire is the same as that of TIG welding wire. The chemical composition of SS solid cored wire for submerged arc welding is the same as that of gas shielded SS wire, but it should be equipped with non-violent medium silicon fluoride or manganese-free low-silicon high-fluoride melting flux.
Stainless Steel Welding Rod
Stainless steel welding rod is used for TIG welding or GTAW. After being straightened, the stainless steel welding wire becomes SS welding rod, also known as SS TIG welding wire. GTAW easily welds all stainless steels and is particularly suited for welding SS pipe, with or without an insert or backing ring. It is also used extensively in joining tubes to tube sheets in shell-and-tube heat exchangers. Compared with other welding methods, due to the protection of pure argon, the alloy elements in the stainless welding rod have almost no burnout and can be completely transferred to the weld.SS TIG welding can be used for welding various types of stainless steel. Due to the characteristics of less burning loss and low line energy of TIG welding, generally the welding rod with the same or similar composition as the base material is selected.
Stainless Steel welding using Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) or commonly called Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding is popular in applications where Robotics is used or in Shop floor jobs where continuous weld through machines are preferred.MIG wires are produced in various types of spools as well as in drum packing for continuous welding.
The designation TIG comes from USA and is an abbreviation of Tungsten Inert Gas. Tungsten – also called wolfram – is a metal with a fusion point of more than 3300oC, which means more than double the fusion point of the metals which are usually welded. We provides customized packaging of TIG wires.
Stainless steel submerged arc welding has the characteristics of high welding productivity, stable welding quality, and good working conditions. Therefore, it has been widely used in many important welding structures, such as boilers, chemical containers, nuclear power, bridges, ships, etc. The most commonly used welding wires in production are ф3.2mm and ф4.0mm specifications.
