Tips on how to maintain welding equipment in Kenya

Welding in the country has been growing at a very fast rate and many people are now using welding equipment in Kenya more and more as compared to the past years.

However, it is very important that people understand the basics of how to use and operate welding machines so as to ensure that the person operating the machine and the rest of the people are safe. 

Just like any other equipment, maintenance is very crucial when it comes to welding equipment.

If you want your welding equipment to really serve you for a long time, then you really have to ensure that the machine is maintained regularly and well.

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Let's look at some tips one can use to maintain a welding equipment.

How to maintain welding equipment in Kenya

Follow specs

The best way one can maintain a welding machine is to ensure that he/she uses it within its specifications. Ensure that you have a duty cycle, which will help you from pushing your welder beyond its limits. 

One can also keep track of the above by ensuring that you select projects that won't push your welder too far beyond its limits. This can be easily achieved by ensuring that you buy a welding machine which suits the kind of welding projects you have.

Maintain by prevention

We all know that prevention is always better than cure and in this case, nothing is different since it's always a good idea for one to use a cover for his welder. It's also very important that one does all of his grinding far enough from the machine. This is just to ensure that nothing gets sucked into the welder while its operating.

If you are also into woodworking, its better that you do that in a separate room so as to ensure that sawdust does not catch sparks from your welder.

Cleaning

It's always important that you clean your welding machine time after time. This is to ensure that all the unnecessary dust is removed and grease the parts that needs to be greased.

Regular maintenance

A welding machine that is maintained regularly is more likely to work efficiently and last longer than one that is not maintained regularly. One therefore needs to ensure that he/she has a routine on how the machine is to be maintained. You can set up the maintenance routine depending on your welding activities or your usage.

Replace parts

There are those parts of welding equipment that will need to be replaced time after time as you continue using the welding equipment. This is why one needs to be prepared to ensure that these parts are replaced as soon as they are worn so as to prevent further damage to the machine.

This is very crucial especially for those people who are using the MIG welding machine. This is because the equipment has many moving parts with the wire feeder. In order to keep the wire feeding process running smoothly, you will have to ensure that you replace the liner.

Well the above are just but some of the various ways of ensuring that welding equipment in Kenya are well cared for so as to serve their owners for a long time and more efficiently.