Welding Essentials: Comprehensive Q&A Guide for Beginners & Professionals | Home DIY, Metal Fabrication & Auto Repair

Finally...a guide that makes welding easy for beginners and is a handy reference for professionals! As a concise yet thorough introduction to the topic, Welding Essentials is designed for educators, engineers, contractors, fabricators, hobbyists, students and beginning weldors. Its unique, comprehensive question-and-answer format will allow readers to quickly find what they are looking for and fully understand it Eliminating non-essential items to prevent overloading the reader, Welding Essentials addresses safety hazards and required precautions in detail and provides solutions to common problems for each process. Currently, for liability reasons many U.S. companies have one or two-day seminars for floor-level workers covering welding processes and safety. With this in mind Welding Essentials can be used in conjunction with these seminars, and as a result will be a tremendous asset to companies needing to log and claim that they put printed safety materials into employees' hands. Additionally, Welding Essentials discusses the difference between constant voltage and constant current power supplies and traces the development of welding power supplies from motor-generator sets to transformers to the inverters of today. It also carefully explains step-by-step setup and shutdown procedures, along with why equipment grounding and GFI's are needed and the way in which they work. In fact, no other welding text covers electrical safety as thoroughly as Welding Essentials. What's more, a metallurgy chapter explains how welding heat affects metals' properties and how to minimize its negative effects and provides a clear explanation of hardening, tempering and heat treating steel. As a valuable guide for beginning welders it presents essential material in small, easy-to-read and understand units and introduces them to weld inspection, welding symbols and qualification and certification issues. Welding Essentials uses more than 300 illustrations to clarify and explain every subject and includes a comprehensive glossary in English and Spanish.