The Spark Something Great grant program is meant to support the next generation of welders and metal fabricators.

Doniphan West High School has a newly updated welding lab with more than $175,000 of new equipment and renovations, including several new welding kits from Harris Products Group.

The use of the TEG-1000 grinder will give repeatable Tungsten Electrode points every time, which enables consistent repeatable arc performance and welding results.

This fiber welding system has a small spot size — as small as 0.001-0.002 inch. Coupled with fast weld speeds and delivers unsurpassed power densities at the weld while minimizing the Heat Affected Zone, making it a good solution for welding dissimilar materials, very thin materials, and for joining thin and thick parts.

This welding joint alignment fixture creates high-integrity welds. The Esco HOG TIE Boiler Tube Weld Alignment Clamp consists of one side with two through-holes and a matching side with threaded inserts, which accept two bolts that draw them together.

The PurgEye Desk is ideal for use with welding chambers and enclosures as well as orbital welding machines and other automatic welding systems. It has automatic fault-finding diagnostics that can detect and report a number of possible faults and also features an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, giving brighter, sharper readings at longer distances.

Welding fumes aren’t good to breath, and all regulatory agencies agree that welding fumes should be directed away from the welder’s breathing zone when local exhaust ventilation (LEV) is being used. While all fumes are bad, some fumes are recognized as more hazardous than others. One such fume is hexavalent chromium, which is produced when welding stainless steel and other materials containing chromium.