ARGWELD® 'Backing
Tape' has been designed to adhere to the backside of a weld to allow
single-sided welding from the front.
The tape would ideally be used for:
one-sided welding of weld able metal
to achieve a flatter, smooth, coke free
welding bead to minimize the need for post-weld grinding and cleaning.
Common metals welded with
ARGWELD®
'Backing Tape' include:
carbon
stainless
chrome-moly and duplex steels
copper nickel
cast iron
The tape comprises a 75 mm wide, heat
resistant aluminum sticky tape, in the center of which is a 25 mm wide band
of woven glass fiber cloth.
The material is available in two grades:
light duty for use up to 80 amps
heavy duty for use up to 160 amps
It is possible to weld onto the tape with
MIG, Stick, TIG or plasma welding processes, so long as the
recommended current levels are not exceeded.
The lightweight grade comes in 25 meter lengths and the heavyweight
in 12.5 meter lengths.
If lengths are needed to be joined, rolls of the sticky aluminum tape
without the fiber are available from Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Limited,
allowing a small length to be cut off to join two lengths of the
ARGWELD®
'Backing Tape' together.
