Roll the Dice
There’s never been more of a sure thing than the NACE show, which enters its 26th year and promises to deal you a full deck of new ideas to increase your business’s profitability.
State Farm Holding Select Service Training in New Jersey
State Farm has announced three training sessions in August in New Jersey for its Select Service shops. The training is meant for shop owners, technical managers, estimators, “A” technicians and unibody frame repairers. Chief Automotive Technologies and Car-O-Liner will be at the events offering training, discounts and other information about their products. State Farm said
Versatile Spot Welding
This system for single-sided spot wedling features a multiple grounding system and can handle all new high-strength steels and boron. For more information, visit www.usaspotwelding.com.
Quick and Easy Welding
Car-O-Liner’s CR500 DA Inverter Spot Welder features a double-action trigger on the spotweld gun that opens and closes the C-tong for quick and easy positioning around obstructions. Also, it’s compatible with all-new high-strength steels and welding processes and is UL, ETL and CSA approved.
Weld Exotic Metals
This new compact single-phase 200 Amp MIG inverter power source offers fully automatic synergic and pulsed-synergic MIG welding and brazing capabilities for high-strength steel, stainless steel, galvanized steel and all aluminum alloys. It also features a broad range of pre-programmed synergic curves. Call (800) 622-8665 or visit www.mactools.com.
Spot-On
Squeeze Type Resistance Spot Welding (STRSW) offers many advantages over MIG welding. But there are pitfalls to watch out for, which I have painfully experienced myself so you don’t have to.
I-CAR to Cover Emerging, Future Industry Trends at Meeting
The 2008 I-CAR International Annual Meeting will be an opportunity for the industry to not only provide feedback to I-CAR, but also receive firsthand information from a number of vehicle manufacturers and other organizations covering emerging technologies and trends within the industry. The meeting’s agenda includes several first-time presenters and technical information exclusive to attendees.
I-CAR Offers New Sectioning Guidelines
I-CAR has released a new set of guidelines for structural sectioning. Recent advancements in vehicle structure – driven by manufacturers looking for lighter, more crash-resistant designs – dictated the change. Advancements include the widespread use of advanced high-strength steels (AHHS) unsuited for sectioning because of their vulnerability to heat and structural design complexities increasingly specific
Talking to Body Shops that Have Made Waterborne Conversion
A check in with body shops on their progress in transitioning to waterborne paint reveals no major problems…as long as paint manufacturers’ guidelines are strictly adhered to.
Service Repair Information: An Important Tool
Accessing manufacturers’ proper repair procedures during the preproduction phase or when creating a repair plan is crucial to being efficient and profitable.
