Our Products
We offer a complete product range of Underwater EasyTouch Electrodes and Ni-Touch Nickel Electrodes
For many non-structural repairs the resultant weld is allowed more leeway in terms of porosity, inclusions, integrity and appearance. To fill the void between to-code work and economy, Broco applied its significant experience and knowledge to design a quality electrode specifically for the economy market. The result is EasyTouch , a moderately priced electrode yielding excellent results. It is easy to light, easy to run (a controllable puddle with rippled bead appearance) and easy to clean. Like SofTouch, EasyTouch is a high deposition all-position electrode.
EasyTouch offers users advantages over other economy priced rods that are more difficult to run, harder to clean, and often need to be grounded and rewelded - all adding to bottom time and increased operating costs.
Broco's Ni-Touch nickel wet welding electrode was developed to allow underwater wet welding of carbon and high tensile steels which would normally require the use of more expensive dry chamber welding. Nickel wet welding electrodes have been used by the U.S. Navy since the early 1980s for selective ship repairs. Now Broco brings customers an improved industry-leading nickel electrode which produces welds with less porosity and allows deeper welding in the overhead position. Ni-Touch electrode is appropriate for all position groove and fillet welds.
High tensile steels generally have carbon contents and carbon equivalents such that welding using carbon steel wet welding electrodes would result in cracking in the heat-affected-zone due to hydrogen embrittlement within a quench-hardened microstructure. With Ni-Touchthe nickel electrode mitigates the effect of hydrogen and results in successful underwater wet welds involving a broad range of high carbon equivalent steels, including HY-80 quenched, and tempered steel used in Naval ships with carbon equivalents exceeding 0.50 percent.