This soft cover book is jammed full of welding lessons for the beginner as well as someone with some beginner experience. This book written by as a combined effort by several weldors in the field, including welding teachers and experienced field engineers. This copy is the 5th revision printed in 2001 and is a brand new copy that hasn't been on public store shelf. The book is divided into sections, and has numerous pictures and diagrams to help teach the lessons.
Section I--ARC Welding Theory and Techniques, has a total of 48 lessons covering very important topics like: Safety, Arc Welding Process, Striking the ARC, Setting the current, Restarting a Bead, Horizontal Welds, Overhead Welds, Butt Welding Pipe, and much, much more.
Section II--ARC Welding Machines, has a total of 8 lessons on 12 pages that discribe and picture the various welding machines, like AC-DC Combination Welder, DC Motor-Generator Welder and much, much more.
Section III---Carbon-Steel Electorodes, has 5 lessons and each has sub-lessons. There are 38 pages in this section that really explain the varables of these types of electorodes.
Section IV--Stainless Steel Electrodes, has 2 lessons on 9 pages covering SS Electrodes.
Section V--Hardsurfacing Electrodes, has 5 lessons on 16 pages that will make you even more knowledgable about ARC welding.
Section VI--Welding Cast Iron and Non-Ferrous Metals, has 3 lessons covering 11 pages with handy information Ferroweld, Softweld, copper, brass, bronze, and aluminum.
Section VII--Semiautomatic ARC Welding, has 21 lessons on 85 pages packed full of information on Innershield Process, Gas Metal ARC, welding pipe, Submerged ARC and much, much more.
Section VIII--TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) Welding, has 13 lessons on 46 pages cover the TIG Process, special types of welds on Aluminum, and other uses for the TIG process.
Section IX--Supplementary Data, has 5 fact filled lessons covering 132 oages. Identifilng metals and their manufacturing and weldability, costs and procedures, weld quality and much, much more.
This book is just chuck full of information that could help make a beginner welder into a knowledgable welder.
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