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.

Tips for safe online shopping in Kenya

Well online shopping in Kenya has been the talk of everyone, especially those people who love spending their time online.

However, it's very important that shoppers are educated on the need to be careful when online shopping since there are many online stores which are actually not genuine.

This is to ensure that people are not conned of their hard earned money by people or online stores pretending to sell products which do not actually exist.

Let’s look at some of the safety tips one can use to ensure his/her safety when shopping online.

Tips for safe online shopping in Kenya

Don’t tell all

You should never give out your private information when shopping online. This is because most reliable online stores do not ask for such information and thus you must be weary of any store asking you for such information because one can use it to steal your identity. One therefore needs to be careful and cautious with the information he/she submits because they might get into the hands of fraudsters.

Online shopping in Kenya

Check statements

If you are an online shopper, it’s important that you check your statements often so as to ensure that any discrepancies are identified early enough. Look at the electronic statements of your credit card, debit card so as to ensure that your accounts are OK and that there are no fraudulent charges. If by any chance something fishy, it’s better that you address the issue as first as possible.

Use familiar websites

It’s always a good practice for one to shop from one online shop that is very trustworthy other than shopping with search engines which can easily lead you astray.  This will ensure that you are able to shop without much trouble.

Avoid public terminals

If you  are going to shop online, it’s never a good idea to shop from a public computer. This is very important because in case you use a public computer to make any purchase and you forget to log out, one can easily access your account.

One also needs to be careful especially when you are outdoors. Ensure that there is no one behind you or close enough to see you’re the credit card number as you enter the digits.

Inoculate your PC

With the high rate of fraudsters trying to trap and steal from online shoppers, it’s important that one seeks some security measures to help curb this.

As a shopper, you always need to be careful and smart at all times.  This is because swindlers do not just sit around waiting for you to give them data. It's due to this that you need to always protect computer against malware with regular updates to your anti virus program.

Use strong passwords

Creation of strong passwords can be of great help, especially if when one is shopping from an online store. One can do this whenever he/she wants to shop online and they are required to create new accounts on the e-commerce sites.

If online shoppers would follow the above tips, I believe we will have lesser incidences of people being tricked into buying products that do not exist. This would therefore help online shopping in Kenya to continue growing.