FOR some years now, there has been a debate over whether it is safer to leave a portable oxy-fuel welding and cutting unit in a constant state of readiness for use, or whether the unit should be ...

AUTOGENOUS welding consists in uniting metals by fusion without the intervention of solder. Ordinary welds may be effected by heating in a forge, but the local application of heat by an electric ...

The employers of a welder, killed when his van exploded, devastating a County Durham town, have been banned from transporting oxy-acetylene cylinders. A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inquiry found ...

Buildings were evacuated and an exclusion zone set up in North Lanarkshire over fears that a van containing chemicals may explode. The van, which was carrying acetylene cylinders, caught fire on ...

The fire brigade were forced to cordon off a section of North Devon beach after an old, rusting four-foot long oxy-acetylene cylinder was found washed up yesterday. The coast guard were initially ...

Having spent more than 35 years teaching the agricultural fraternity to weld, Derbyshire farmer Richard Archer knows a thing or to about joining bits of metal together. His welding career started in ...