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Nothing new about cordless hand-tools, but what about cordless welding plant?

Could a machine like this save you time?

Cordless welding plant is being used to make significant time savings on the same project in Grange Castle.

“Half the work” – John McGeady

There are some obvious ease of use benefits of the cordless plant such as :-

√ No requirement for PAT testing of plant (charger only)

√ Removal of cable trip hazards

√ Never running out of cable length

√ Shorter welding torches and shorter earth clamps where the plant can be brought closer to work location inside an MEWP

But it is how the cordless plant is being used that really saves time.

The cordless plant takes a full 2 hours to charge which delivers :-

  1. 18no. 3.2mm stick rods or
  2. 2no. 6” sched. 10 butt welds or
  3. 2 days of tacking.

With a site requirement for all cables to be at high level, welding plant with power cables demands labour intensive running and re-running of the power cable to each weld. Instead of completing this process twice, for tacking first and then for welding each joint, the cordless plant is optimised by using it to tack all the joints first. Welders using conventional cabled welding plant will then complete the more energy intensive butt welds, saving the battery of the cordless plant.

 

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