Detailed guide

OMH-1

About OMH-1

Pure Nickel or Steel/Nickel type welding rods have been used for cast iron in the past. Therefore, the following procedure is generally taken in case of hardfacing welding on cast iron surface.

First, pure Nickel or Steel/Nickel type welding rod is used for underlayer welding and hardfacing welding rod is used on top of that.

However, there is weak point that Nickel is austenite and soft composition and the hardness does not get stable if multilayer welding is not applied as it is effected by Nickel on hadfacing welding.

In Japan, a hardfacing welding rod (for instance our MH-1) which does not contain Nickel and can be used for direct welding on cast iron was put in practical use for edge preparation on automobile press mould.


OMH-1 is for direct welding on cast iron and was newly developed to use MH-1 with MAG welding for hardfacing.

As OMH-1 is solid wire, it can be used for automatic welding by robot.

OMH-1 is used by number of automobile maker with automatic or semi-automatic welding and is it mounted on robot some cases.

As stated above, OMH-1 (MAG welding wire) takes a very important role for manufacturing automobile press mould and its features are;

  1. Welding speed is 3 to 5 times higher than manual welding rod.
  2. Welding quality is substantially superior to manual welding rod.
  3. Welding cost is 1/2~1/4 compared to manual welding rod.

As stated above, better quality, high speed and low cost welding will be available by using OMH-1 for welding cast iron.

The brief overview of OMH-1 is as follows.

Performance of OMH-1

OMH-1 is a solid wire for MAG welding which made direct edge preparation on cast iron possible.

The features are;

Edge preparation used with OMH-1 direct solid wire on cast iron enables HRC55~60 hardness with 5C beveling and 3-pass/2 layer welding and is also applicable to full automatic operation combined with robot.

Contribute to the customers who are considering cost down for edge preparation.

Performance of OMH-1 is shown in the below.

  1. Hardness of weld metal
  2. Edge preparation test
    2-1.Hardness of cross-section
  3. Test result
  4. Precaution statement
  5. Comparison with manual welding as for press mould welding

1.Hardness of weld metal

The surface hardness is measured after build up welding with welding procedure shown in the Table-1 on FC300 cast iron base metal (25×50×100L)

Result is shown in Table-2

 

【Table-1 Welding condition】

Wire
Diameter
1.2mm Base metal FC3000
Power source

DAIHEN DP-350

Pulse condition Mild steel pulse range
Current/Voltage 80Amp・23VShield gas Ar+20% CO2
Interpass temperatureBelow 150℃--

 

【Table-2. Number of welding layer and hardness】

Build up methodMeasurement method12345Average
イラスト1

Rockwell
(HRC)

47.854.952.854.553.552.7
イラスト2Rockwell
(HRC)
55.354.554.154.655.554.8
イラスト3Rockwell
(HRC)
57.256.956.457.258.457.2
イラスト4Rockwell
(HRC)
50.953.351.552.251.251.8

2.Edge preparation test

The test is conducted with automatic welding after machine work of C surface 4.5 to FC300, 100x400L square bar.

The result is shown in Table-3

【Table-3  Welding conditon】

Base metal FC300
Current/Voltage 80Amp23V
Power source/
Pulse condition
DAIHEN DP-350
Shield gas Ar+20%CO2
Angle of advance
Build up procedure イラスト5
Peening Non
Welding pass number Welding speed Torch angle
1260 mm/min55°
2260 mm/min65°
3285 mm/min55°

2-1.Hardness of cross-section

The hardness was measured on cross section after cutting.

The result is shown in Figure-1.

Hardness tester

Micro-Vickers hardness tester

Loading

1kg

Measurement location

イラスト6

 

図1

【Figure-1. Cross section hardness】


3.Test result

  1. Build up welding on cast iron with OMH-1 firms up hardness (HRC57) by 2-layer/3-pass welding.  Moreover, extremely less variation in hardness

  2. No crack on weld metal.  Also, no emergence of blowhole.


4.Precaution statement

  1. Use Ar+20%CO2 for shield gas.
  2. Use pulse MAG welding machine (e.g. Daihen DP-350)
  3. Apply 80~90A current and 21~23V voltage for 1st layer on cast iron.
  4. One size (1.2Ø) is available for OMH-1

5.Comparison with manual welding as for press mould welding

Comparison with manual welding rod for press mould welding is shown in Table-4.

 

【Table-4.  Comparison between wire and manual welding electrode】

 Wire Covered arc
electrode
For high hardness build up (MH-61S) EA600W
For repair and build up on cast ironGN-55SNGRICAST31
For direct build up on cast iron OMH-1MH-1
Direct build up on cast iron (about HRC40) MH-400SMH-100S
For welding flame hard steelMH-5SMH-5

 

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