SPIKA Welding and Manufacturing has made an enhanced safety welding cart commercially available.
According to Spika, the cart was originally developed by the United States Air Force to reduce the risk of accidents involving oxy-acetylene gas welding and cutting.
Oxy-acetylene cutting and welding is common practice in many industrial, construction and maintenance facilities. Portable oxy-acetylene kits consist of a compressed gas bottle containing acetylene stabilised with acetone, along with one larger cylinder of compressed industrial oxygen.
The industry standard uses a two-wheeled tip-back style cart, with two gas cylinders chained to a simple deck. Exposed valves and regulators sit on top of the cylinders, with twin rubber hoses connected to a mixing valve and torch tips.
If accidentally knocked over, the oxygen cylinder’s valves can break, causing it to move at considerable speed and force. The weight of the cylinders makes them difficult to balance and hard to manoeuvre.
The new product, called the Gas Guardian, eliminates the problems with the old kits, and comes with regulators, hose, self-recoiling hose reel, and high pressure supply lines. It comes finished in powder coated safety yellow.

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Spika Welding
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