Look around you. Is there anything – anything – within a 25- to 30-foot radius that could catch on fire if, say, a shower of sparks were to land on it? Are you sure? What are you wearing? Does your ...

Many of us are comfortable using an oxy-acetylene torch, but sometimes we’re dissatisfied with our cuts. Here are things to check, and tips to improve torch performance: 1. Generic regulator setting ...

Having spent more than 35 years teaching the agricultural fraternity to weld, Derbyshire farmer Richard Archer knows a thing or to about joining bits of metal together. His welding career started in ...

The preheating temperature on the material must be lower than its melting temperature. Preheating beyond the melting temperature would result in material flow before cutting. Oxyfuel cutting is a ...