Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1913 — Electric Welding Has Many Advantages Over Old Way. [ARTICLE]

Electric Welding Has Many Advantages Over Old Way.

Welding two pieces of metaj together by the old processes was at best unreliable. When -the strain on the welded joint was heavy, you never knew whether it was going to hold or not. But with the use of electricity in making the weld, the fiber of the two pieces of metal are make to flow into eaeh other and so become practically one piece. The success of this new method was recognized at once, and now you have hardly a tool or piece of machinery on your farm but what is electrically welded where there Is a juncture of metals. The present state of perfection of garden and barnyard tools, mowers, reapers, binders, threshers, cultivators, kitchen utensils, dairy machinery, edge tools,\ chains, automobile engines and steering gears, bottoms of oil cans, frames of bicycles, etc., is 'made possible through electric welding. The same process produces “Pittsburgh Perfect” electrical , welded wire fencing, made bv the Pittsburgh Steel Company, whose advertisements are appearing regularly in this paper. “Pittsburgh Perfect" fencing Is a solid, one-piece fabric with many distinctive advantages, among them being the ease with which it is strung, the great tension to which it can be stretched because of the absolute elimination of "long” and “short” line wires, the smooth surface making wire-cuts Impossible, and the neat appearance of the fence. The welded joints in “Pittsburgh Perfect” are tigice as. strong as the wire itself, because two wires are made into one by electricity, which also piles the galvanizing around the -joints, adding greatly to the life of the fence. Modern methods of manufacture in many lines have been greatly benefited by the discovery and practice of welding by eleetrieity.