22 Oct Mobile Welding: What’s the Best Type of Welding?

The art of welding steel and other metals is not exactly new. Over the years, structural steel welding has evolved into something that encompasses numerous different types of machinery, techniques and applications. All of these have expanded to offer something unique beyond welding two steel beams together, for example.

What is Welding?

Welding is a steel fabrication process whereby two or more parts are fused together, via a combination of pressure, heat and other processes. The heat and pressure help to fuse two pieces of structural steel together, with the steel pieces reaching such high temperatures that they start to melt on one area, and blend into the other. As the steel pieces cool, they form a continuous single product.

Welding is not to be confused with soldering or brazing, which are processes that do not melt the base materials.

Here at Baker Steel Trading, we are an experienced team of structural steel fabricators, who are no strangers to welding numerous steel products together. Our coded welders are trained in various types of welding, and over the years we have offered a mobile welding service to our customers who require fast and efficient assistance.

Is Mobile Welding Different to Standard Welding?

Mobile welding services are ostensibly the same as traditional welding, with the added benefit that the former is not based in a particular location. Mobile welding can be carried out anywhere, usually on a domestic, commercial or industrial site where some immediate work is required to fix a steel frame building, for example. Baker Steel Trading’s highly-trained and skilled coded mobile welders are always equipped with up-to-date technology and tools to carry out our services on-site, professionally and diligently.

What are the Types of Welding?

Now that you know a little bit more about welding metal, steel and more, it’s important to look a little deeper into the various styles of welding. There are a variety of welding processes, each with their own applications and techniques for applications. We have outlined some of them below, to give you some perspective on how versatile it really is.

• TIG welding

  Tungsten Inert Gas welding (commonly known as Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) involves producing welds with non-consumable tungsten electrodes. The arc is formed between the electrode and the workpiece in an inert atmosphere.

• Stick welding

  This is also known as Shielded Metal Arc Welding. This process uses electricity to melt metal filler rods, which in turn melts the joint and electrode at once, to fuse the metals together (while filling the joint with filler material at the same time).

• Flux-cored welding

  This process involves using continuous wire-fed electrodes, a consistently-charged power supply and can be done with or without the presence of shielding gases.

• MIG welding 

  This stands for Metal Inert Gas welding. MIG welding involves an electric arc being formed between the workpiece and a wire electrode. This involves using inert gases or gas mixtures to shield.

• MAG welding 

  This stands for Metal Active Gas welding. An electric arc is formed between a consumable wire electrode and the material to be joined. These use active shielding gases during steel welding, which is what separates MIG and MAG welding.

There are quite a few processes of welding, all of which have their own advantages and disadvantages. There is no single welding process that is going to be universally acceptable for every structural steel fabrication project.

Which is the Strongest Form of Mobile Welding?

There is no easy way to answer this question. The strongest type of weld depends on the quality of the base material(s) the coded welders and steel fabricators are working with, and its intended use.

Whether you want to weld aluminium, stainless steel, mild steel or structural steel beams, you need to consider what you want to create out of the products. You may also want to consider how quickly a steel fabrication specialist can turn the request around. The best advice we can give is that you should not aim for the quickest results possible. Quality and precision are very much at the heart of strong, high-quality steel welds, and they should be given enough time and attention if you want to ensure complete longevity and durability.

Mobile Welding Experts

Here at Baker Steel Trading, not only can we provide flexible mobile welding services for you while on-site, but we also have a hard-working in-house team who take great pride in welding to the highest standards. Here are 6 reasons why you should consider us.

If you would like to find out more about our services, you can get a free estimate from us via our contact form.