Weld Backing Tape from Aquasol Welding

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Fiback FIBERGLASS WELDBACKING
TAPE ELIMINATEBACK PURGING            
MADE IN THE USA
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About

• Fiback Fiberglass Weld Backing Tape is an
  innovative substitute for traditional back
  purging methods that provides protection to the
  backside of the weld environment and ensures a
  high quality finish. Fiback is flexible, heat
  resistant, and halogen and fluorocarbon-free,
  enabling it to be a complete solution for plate,
  sheet and pipe welding needs.
• This welding tape is composed of two adhesive
  areas around the outside edges with a center
  fiberglass strip, heat resistant up to 1,022F
  (550C) and withstanding applications up to 600
  amps.
• Suitable for SMAW (stick), TIG, and MIG Welding
  processes, Fiback can conform to various shapes
  making it superior to more rigid solutions that
  develop stress points between pieces and are
  prone to cracking and breaking over time.

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Fiback reduces set-up, clean up and weld time
eliminates post-weld grinding and back gouging
and increases work efficiency while minimizing
costs. Fiback 200 AMP Light duty Sufficient for
thinner materials, such as aluminum, carbon
steel,  chrome steels, cast iron, nickel and
cobalt alloys, copper nickel and many more Often
used in general fabrication shops and for 
manufacturing pressure vessels and aircraft
components Fiback 600 AMP Heavy duty Typically
used for denser metals, such as stainless steel,
duplex stainless steel and other metals depending
on thickness Often used for projects in the
commercial and military ship manufacturing
industry Can be used with automated equipment for
more accurate results
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Fiback 200 AMP
Fiback 600 AMP
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Features and Benefits
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• Flexible
• Suitable for stainless, carbon, duplex and chrome
  steels as well as other metals
• Woven fiberglass and malleable aluminum tape
  easily conforms to a number of complex shapes and
  uneven surfaces
• A supportive weld pool is created by forming the
  tape into a convex shape resulting in an
  oxygen-free weld bead
• Consistent in thickness, Fiback creates a
  continuous bead, ideal for lengthy applications
• High Quality Safe Components
• Halogen and chlorofluorcarbon free, creating a
  safe work environment
• Fiberglass formulation is also free of mercury,
  antimony, fluoride, bromide, phosphorous, sulfur,
  and lead
• Virgin aluminum foil coated with free acrylic
  base adhesive
• Tightly and  finely woven, unadulterated
  fiberglass

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• Compatibility Process Applications
• Suitable for SMAW (stick), TIG and MIG welding
  processes
• Ideal for welding sheet-to-sheet, plate-to-plate,
  pressure vessels, large diameter pipes and tanks,
  longitudinal and circumferential seams and
  anywhere that a back purging is not possible or
  very costly with gas
• Increases Efficiency and Savings
• Eliminates the need for back purging, increasing
  weld productivity and reducing labor costs
• Saves gas as well as down time, allowing the user
  to bypass filling large structures such as
  pressure vessels and bore pipes with argon
• Significantly reduces post-weld clean up time by
  eliminating gouging grinding
• Perfectly compatible with orbital welding
  machines

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How Fiback Works
Align Align desired base metals with the required
root gap. Center the fiberglass strip over the
backside of the root gap.
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PositionPosition the fiberglass strip in a
convex shape away from the backside of the weld
area to contain the purge gas from the torch tip
but avoid consuming the material.
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Press Press the adhesive sections of tape along
the sides of the root gap to the base metal,
continuing to center the fiberglass strip.
Remember to peel the release liner from the
aluminum tape while progressing along the weld
joint. This procedure ensures the adhesive on the
aluminum tape is free from debris and foreign
matter.After Fiback has been applied to the
entire length of the metals being joined, press
outer adhesive edges again to create an air tight
seal between the tape and the base metal.
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Weld Begin welding the desired seam.
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Types Sizes
ITEM NO DESCRIPTION WIDTH FIBERGLASS CENTER STRIP WIDTH LENGTH
AFBT-2.5-200 Fiback Weld Backing Tape 200 AMP 2.5" (64 mm) 1.125" (28.5 mm) 82' (25 m)
AFBT-4.0-200 Fiback Weld Backing Tape 200 AMP 4.0" (102 mm) 1.5" (38 mm) 82' (25 m)
AFBT-2.5 Fiback Weld Backing Tape 600 AMP 2.5" (64 mm) 1.125" (28.5 mm) 41' (12.5 m)
AFBT-4.0 Fiback Weld Backing Tape 600 AMP 4.0" (102 mm) 1.5" (38 mm) 41' (12.5 m)
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Heat Resistance
Adhesive 500F 260C
Aluminum Foil 1100F 593C
Fiberglass Strip 1022F 550C