Troubleshooting Excessive Resistance
You've probably encountered a situation where everything seems right – your voltage is technically correct for the application and your wire is feeding smoothly — and yet something still goes wrong when you strike an arc.

Chances are, excessive resistance is to blame. Resistance can be caused by a variety of factors along the welding circuit, including frayed stranding within the work lead or ground clamp, surface contaminants on the work piece or poor connections between the cable and MIG gun.

Visit the Bernard Web site to learn how to spot and troubleshoot common sources of excessive resistance.

New Water-Cooled W-Gun Available Now!
If you run a high-amperage, water-cooled MIG welding system, you'll definitely want to check out our new W-Gun and water-cooled Centerfire consumables.

The W-Gun is rated to 600 amps at 100 percent duty-cycle and offers direct plug connections to all major brands of wire feeders. Plus, we've added some new features that improve durability and reduce the chance of coolant blockage.

Learn more about our water-cooled MIG products by downloading the spec sheet or contacting your local Bernard MIG specialist.

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Hot Az Hell Turns Up The Heat With Bernard's Dura-Flux

Converting to Bernard's Dura-Flux gun dramatically reduced burnbacks and increased productivity for Hot Az Hell Welding and Fabrication.

It’s hot in the Arizona desert, and if you’re driving U.S. Highway 60 or the Hoover Dam Kingman Highway, you might be able to point out your window and say, “It’s Hot Az Hell!” Hot Az Hell Welding and Fabrication, that is.

Making a particularly colorful name for themselves over the last three years, Hot Az Hell Welding and Fabrication has become the contractor of choice for handrail fabrication in Central Arizona.

Willing to tackle nearly any welding project that comes their way—including welding together five railroad cars to build a bridge over the Central Arizona Project Canal—Hot Az Hell recently made the switch from Stick to flux-cored welding in order to improve their productivity. However, the company’s owner, Shawn Moreland, immediately began encountering multiple burnbacks and birdnests per day, negating the benefits promised by the flux-cored process.

Moreland’s welding ace, Chris Rice, recognized that the problem wasn’t the process or his welding technique, but the flux-cored gun that Moreland was using. They tried out Bernard’s Dura-Flux™ gun and didn’t experience a single burnback or birdnest for the rest of the job.

“We just threw the other gun away,” Moreland said. “After I got a chance to use Chris’ gun, I was 100 percent sold on Bernard.”

Visit the Bernard Web site for more on Hot Az Hell’s transition to Bernard’s Dura-Flux gun and how it helped them increase their productivity by over 400 percent.

New Dura-Flux Options Introduced!

Whether it’s buying a new car, eating at the local diner or picking out a new flux-cored welding gun, we all love options! With that in mind, we've created several new neck, cable, handle and consumables options for our popular Dura-Flux gun, allowing you to customize your gun to match nearly any self-shielded flux-cored welding application.

And you’ll soon be able to custom configure your new Dura-Flux on our Web site 24/7 and have your order sent to your preferred welding distributor for fulfillment. As always, the Dura-Flux gun comes standard with Bernard’s industry-leading Centerfire™ consumables system.

If you haven’t yet, check out the Dura-Flux page on our Web site to see all of the new options and find out how to custom order your new gun.