Gouging System for Hundreds of Metal Fabrication Uses

This gouging system can be utilized on almost all metals, including stainless steel, carbon, manganese, and chrome-moly steels. It is perfect for work with pressure vessels, wind towers, shipbuilding, railroads, bridge and girder manufacturing, and with heavy equipment used in mining industries.

Arcair^® (St. Louis, MO), an industry leader in air-carbon arc products, offers the Arcair-Matic N7500, a new and improved automatic gouging system that provides versatility, flexibility and safety features built with an enhanced gouging function.

Mount an N7500 gouging system on the right travel system for your application and you have a system that will gouge more than five times faster than any welder/operator with a hand torch can. It will gouge more accurately and consistently, too. In fact, a typical automated gouge requires ten times less grinding and improves your overall metal removal productivity.

The N7500 gouging system will produce excellent U-groove edge preparation and back-gouging for both plate and pipe, and with less edge distortion than flame cutting. It can J-groove a 1”in (25.4 mm) thick plate about 50 percent faster than an automatic flame torch can bevel. And since a J-groove requires a lot less fill metal than a bevel joint, welding is done at one-and-one-half times the speed.

Covering a broad range of applications, the N7500 gouging system can be utilized on almost all metals, including stainless steel, carbon, manganese, and chrome-moly steels. It is perfect for work with pressure vessels, wind towers, shipbuilding, railroads, bridge and girder manufacturing, and with heavy equipment used in mining industries.

To provide excellent ease of use for the operator, a remote pendant gives complete control of the gouging operation where it needs to be – in the operator’s hands. The operator has full control to manage the gouging parameters. A set-up selection guide can be viewed on a LED display instead of analog gauges. It includes a start/up function, electrode diameter (input), gouge depth (input), current (output) and travel speed (output).