Weldtron Information

The original business that became Weldtron was founded in March, 1979 in Corpus Christi, Texas by David C. Herbert. It started out as an Industrial Electronic repair business for troubleshooting and repair of electrical and electronic controls for generator sets, welding machinery, NC equipment, DC motor speed controls and a host of heavy industrial manufacturing machinery. Through the demand for our electronic repair services for welding equipment, we eventually morphed into specializing in welding machines and welding related equipment. During 1984 we shifted our business from exclusively repairing welding machinery to include repairing welding machinery electronic circuit boards on a nationwide basis. We were one of the pioneers in national repair of welding machine circuit boards by mail order. In 1986 we started to develop a small remote amperage controller that would operate on both DC and AC auxiliary powered welding machines. We also started to develop a simple idler board for Lincoln SA-200 machines along with upgrades for older machines. 1988 saw the introduction of the first electronic upgrade module for old SA-200 machines with R-57 idlers and the first prototype of our now renowned "Pipeliner" remote amp control. It was also during 1988 that we discontinued the "hands on" repair of welding machines so that we could devote our time to both the development of our manufactured products for welding equipment along with repair of welding machine circuit boards. We also designed electronic machinery controls for various companies on a project basis. We received a US Patent on our Pipeliner remote amp controller in 1993 and began production of it's first models that became what it is today. 1995 was a "watershed" year for us. It was the year that we ceased circuit board repair and turned our focus to manufacturing our own products exclusively. Our motto was, and still is: Keep it simple and make it repairable. Since we are a "total in-house" business (A business that has all of it's own technical ...