Spot welding electrodes: how to improve endurance & weld quality NDB spot welding electrodes outperform the competition Proper electrode design and construction is essential to ensuring consistent weld quality, minimum electrode sticking, … [Read more...]
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Resistance Spot Welding Is Still Spot On
How Does Resistance Spot Welding Compare with Laser Welding and Other Welding Methods? Resistance spot welding may be an older method, but it is still one of the best for welding many industrial parts, especially in the high-volume production stage. … [Read more...]
Electrode Properties in Resistance Spot Welding: Why They Matter
Unlike pure copper resistance welding electrodes, whose properties and design cause them to conduct heat, the pure refractory electrodes are selected precisely because they will retain heat. Tungsten (W) is notable for the fact that it has the … [Read more...]
Resistance Spot Welding Electrodes: Understanding the Variables
It’s commonly understood that high conductivity electrode materials (Classes 1 and 2 under the ISO 5182 system) are ideal for welding low conductivity workpieces. And conversely, high conductivity metals require electrodes with lower conductivity, … [Read more...]
Resistance Welding Electrode Materials: A White Paper
Ramp up production with better resistance welding electrodes Learn how better materials for resistance welding electrodes speed up your welding operation Robotic welding and resistance welding machines are among the most essential automation … [Read more...]
Ramp up production with better resistance welding electrodes
Spot welding electrodes: how to improve endurance & weld quality
Choosing the Right Material for Spot Welding Electrodes
Why Consider Pure Tungsten or Pure Molybdenum for Your Application? Electrode materials are commonly thought of as a blending of copper or silver and tungsten. These “blends” are well known in the industry, and many different percentages of materials … [Read more...]
Choosing the Right Resistance Welding Electrodes for Hybrid Vehicle Battery Packs
Aluminum sheet is famously difficult to weld, attempts often resulting in feedability problems, weak welds, and defects such as craters or cracking. Automakers face a production challenge each time a new aluminium intensive vehicles or hybrid battery … [Read more...]
Optimizing the Life of Resistance Welding Electrodes
When welding is done by hand, there are many subtle adjustments that a skilled welder can make to compensate for any variations in the stick electrode. (Kudos to those of you who immediately recognized this image from Flashdance. And kudos to the 80s … [Read more...]
The Right Electrode Material for Your Resistance Welding Application
Welding is one of those skills emblematic of the changing manufacturing landscape. That is a polite way of saying it is commonly described as a technique that fewer and fewer Americans have mastered or have any interest in mastering. And while … [Read more...]
Improved Wear Resistance with Copper Tungsten Electrodes
Choosing the Best Electrode Material for EDM of Carbides Electrical discharge machining (EDM) of carbides can, quite literally, be a rough business. Determining the right set of parameters for job success can require time, attention, and … [Read more...]
Swiss CNC Metal Machining of Medical Electrodes Made from MP35N®
Creating Features to Improve Functionality in Medical Devices If you are not in the medical device industry, you may be surprised to learn that the term electrodes does not just refer to the ones Metal Cutting Corporation makes for resistance spot … [Read more...]
Pure Tungsten Electrodes
Pure Tungsten Electrodes Our pure tungsten electrodes exhibit superior characteristics at high temperature and deliver the exceptional performance required for resistance spot welding of non-ferrous metals. Our unique non-defective bonding (NDB) … [Read more...]
Copper Tungsten Electrode
A best-selling product for resistance spot welding and die sinker EDM applications, Metal Cutting’s copper tungsten electrodes resist cracking and offer superior performance. Our unique non-defective bonding (NDB) technology creates a copper tungsten … [Read more...]
Barriers to Lights Out Operation in High Precision Machining
What Is Lights Out Small Parts Machining — and How Realistic Is It? Lights out machining is a method of automating manufacturing to minimize or eliminate the amount of human interaction needed. This idea of replacing humans with a gadget or … [Read more...]
Does Metal Cutting Do Metal Fabrication?
The answer is not as simple as you’d think! At Metal Cutting Corporation, we often have people come to us and ask if we do metal fabrication. The truth is, the answer depends on how you define the term. While we don’t consider ourselves a … [Read more...]
The Cure for Some Common Electrode Bonding Problems
Why Do Bonding Problems Happen — and What Can We Do to Prevent Them? Recently, we’ve talked a lot about the different materials that can be used for resistance spot welding electrodes — materials that, alone or in combination, need to stand up to … [Read more...]
How to Utilize Tungsten in an Automotive Application
Using Copper Tungsten in Resistance Spot Welding for BEVs Last week, we talked about the use of copper tungsten in the die sinker EDM process utilized to cut parts for a challenging aerospace application. Remarkably, the same copper tungsten can be … [Read more...]
Electrode Materials
Evolving from our vast experience working with engineers and technical teams to perfect the art and science of automated micro spot welding applications, Metal Cutting offers a range of specialty refractory metal electrode products, including copper … [Read more...]
Early Beginnings in Tungsten & Molybdenum
Tungsten and molybdenum were the first metals we cut, ground, lapped, and polished, and Metal Cutting has been providing specialized products in these materials since 1967. Today, our tungsten products include tungsten wires on spools and in straight … [Read more...]
Why Copper Tungsten? | Manufacturability
Why Use Copper Tungsten for Machining Electrodes? While each machine shop will have its own set of best practices, copper tungsten generally has the machining and grinding characteristics of hard gray cast iron. However, the machining … [Read more...]
Precision CNC Metal Machining
Introduction: What is precision metal CNC machining? For design engineers, R&D teams, and manufacturers that depend on part sourcing, precision CNC machining allows for the creation of complex parts without additional processing. In fact, … [Read more...]
Optimizing for Manufacturability in Small Parts Sourcing
What is optimizing for manufacturability?(And why should you care?) In the world of manufacturing, the sourcing of small parts is an increasingly competitive and global endeavor. With improvements in transportation and communication making the … [Read more...]
