Fabrication, Welding & Engineering Workshop Supply

The consumable range is built around that test. Lincoln Electric where the procedure sheet names the consumable and substitution is not an option; Taurus where general fabrication, structural work and repair need a keener price without a drop in reliability. Fast-moving sizes are held in Johannesburg, Nelspruit and Kitwe, and anything else is quoted against a confirmed lead time rather than a hopeful one.

Around the wire sits everything else the bench needs: TIG rods and tungstens, 6013 and 7018 stick electrodes, contact tips, nozzles and liners, cutting and grinding discs, flap discs and burrs, cutting torches, regulators, flashback arrestors and hoses, plus the welding PPE that has to be there before anyone strikes an arc.

Handling matters here too, more than most workshops expect. Crated machinery comes in, long fabricated sections go out, and hot work needs manipulating rather than carrying. Fork clamps, load reach extenders, mechanical attachments and forging manipulators are the families that come up most.