An Attractive Assistant Magnets in the weld bay

摘要

Most production shops are set up with the jigs and fixtures necessary to hold workpieces in position for welding, permitting multiple repetitions of a set-up with reduced positioning errors. For limited production runs and maintenance repairs, welders tend to use vice grips, clamps, pliers or a vice for fixturing, when they're not supporting one part just long enough to set a few one-handed tack welds to the adjoining component. Inevitably, there will be a job that defies most of the items in the toolbox, like welding a 2 in. pipe to a flat plate in a location where it's almost impossible to hold the pipe straight with one hand while tacking.