Submerged Arc Welding Guide: SAW Process, Flux & Heavy Fabrication

Submerged arc welding (SAW) feeds a bare wire under a blanket of granular flux so...

Stick Welding Guide: SMAW Process, Electrodes & Best Practice

Stick welding (shielded metal arc welding, SMAW) joins metal with a flux-coated consumable electrode that...

Silver Brazing Guide: Process, Filler Alloys & Joint Design

Silver brazing (hard soldering) joins metals with silver-bearing filler alloys that melt below the base...

Shape-Memory Alloy Guide: Nitinol, Superelasticity & Applications

Shape-memory alloys (SMAs) such as nickel-titanium (Nitinol) and copper-based alloys remember a trained shape and...

Rare-Earth Magnet Guide: NdFeB & SmCo Properties & Applications

Rare-earth magnets — chiefly neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) and samarium-cobalt (SmCo) — deliver by far the highest...

Powder Coating Defects: Causes & Fixes for a Perfect Finish

Powder coating defects such as orange peel, pinholes, fish eyes, craters and poor adhesion usually...

Magnetic Particle Testing (MT): Method, Standards & Limitations

Magnetic particle testing (MT) reveals surface and shallow subsurface cracks, laps and seams in ferromagnetic...

Flow Forming Guide: Spin Forming, Wall Reduction & High-Strength Parts

Flow forming (spin forming) forces a rotating tube or disc blank against hardened rollers that...

Copper Wire Supplier – Bare, Tinned & Enamelled Magnet Wire from Shanghai

HXSCO supplies copper wire as bare and tinned C11000 conductor wire, enamelled magnet wire for...

Aluminum Wire Supplier – EC & Alloy Wire, MIG & Drawing Wire from Shanghai

HXSCO supplies aluminium wire in EC-grade electrical conductor wire (1350-H19) for overhead transmission lines and...