Damian Bullock
English 12 Traditional
14 March 2014
Welding in Modern Times
Welding is a trade that requires complex skills and training. It has been used since the dawn of the Egyptians and has evolved over the years into the complex art of modern times.
Welding has been used to help create cities, machines, and tools that our society uses on a daily basis. Welding is the process of which two pieces of metal are permanently joined together and includes ornamental welding, practical welding, techniques, and welding machines (Welding Information Center).
Welding isn’t just a simple process with only one way to perform it, it has several different types and ways to perform this skill. Some ways that welding can be done are vertically, under water, overhead, and flat welding. The easiest way to weld anything is flat welding. It is easier to control the weld and to have it lay right on top of the joint. Welding vertically is a more difficult technique regardless of what type of welder being used. Welding up vertically is difficult because of the fact that the weld just wants to burn through the metal because of the heat that is being transferred. It is also very difficult to control the welding gun or electrode because it is not easy to get a nice solid weld on the joint when welding vertically. Another type of welding is overhead welding. Overhead welding is extremely difficult to perform and is the toughest. The weld wants to fall off the metal as a molten ball and it will injure or burn the welder severely. That’s why welding protection gear is needed and it would be a mistake or regret to not wear the gear. (Praxiar 1).
Welding is a great field to get into because it doesn’t have limitations for how the welding process g...
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... no spatter like the other welders do. The TIG welder may be the most difficult welder to use but it definitely provides an excellent control of root pass weld penetration. It is the most efficient and the best welder to use for a nice fine finish (Praxiar 1).
Another type of welding that isn’t very popular is stud welding. “Stud welding is a complete one-step fastening system, using a wide variety of fasteners called weld studs” (Stud Welding Equipment 1). Stud welding is a very easy process to use, it’s even easier than a MIG welder because all it takes is the pull of a trigger to release the weld stud. Stud welding is used in children’s toys, appliances, construction, offshore, and much more. Stud welding is a less expensive process than other fastening methods and can be used in locations which do not allow the use of other fasteners (Stud Welding Equipment 1).
Welding is a dangerous job because you can hurt your eyes from the flash if you don’t wear eye protection. Yes pipeline welding dangerous, but it is wrong because it is only dangerous when proper safety precautions aren’t taking place. Welding is dangerous because pieces of metal can fall on you and you can get flash burn. And you can be exposed to gases, fires, explosions, and electric shock. But the only way these things happen is when safety measures are ignored.
Career Education Advisor states that welding is relatively dangerous work, done in some potentially hazardous environments. Welders work with electrical currents, large machinery, and heavy parts in conditions that include factories and construction sites. Management-level welders spend time on work sites as well as in the office (Career Education Advisor). Finally, every occupation has advantages
Another type of welding is”Tig welding” which is when a electrode such as aluminum or tungsten that is melted with a strong torch or electrical arc. Another type of welding is “Mig welding” that is when you have a spool of wire and a inert gas such as argon or Co2 which acts as an insulator for the arc that is created in order to weld a bead. There are many more types of welding that you can learn when you are studying to become a welder or fabricator. When studing for welding you can and will learn about so much more stuff like oxy torch cutting and flux core welding which i hope many people will have the ability to at least try welding
Welding is a excellent career choice for those who like to build things with their hands and have a strong attention to detail. It requires an extensive amount of knowledge and skill but for those who get a solid grasp of the respected trade they're rewarded with tremendous job opportunities and first-rate pay.
To paraphrase Alexander Pope, “True ease in welding comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to work the puddle.” The puddle is what forms when I first start a weld; however, working the puddle means controlling the weld puddle to form a consistent weld. I think college will not truly teach me how to work the puddle and will not give me the experience I want. I think technical school will truly teach me how to work the puddle and give me the best experience for the welding industry. I think college’s cost, length, job outlook, and social experience is worse versus technical school’s cost, length, job outlook, and social experience. Technical school will ease me into the welding industry with the learning of a true
The main objective of this project was to investigate the influence of blade and clearance on the work material and the parameters affecting resistance spot welding such as heat transfer from the electrodes to the sheet-sheet interface, current requirement to achieve the necessary heat to form weld nugget and influence of clamping force on sheet welding.
scientific experiments (Go welding: history of welding 1). Conventional welding is most easily explained as arc welding processes. Some arc welding processes are TIG welding, Stick Welding(SMAW), and MIG welding. TIG stands for Tungsten Inert Gas welding this means that using tungsten as a electrode and an inert gas, which is usually argon, the weld is produced by creating an arc between the piece being welded and the tungsten electrode. SMAW or stick welding utilizes a stick electrode held in a clamp surrounded by a powdered substance to weld. Mig welding uses a machine that holds a wire feeder within it, the wire feeder feeds the wire electrode through a tube to a gun that slowly sends out the wire as well as a steady flow of inert gas. These and other processes classified as conventional welding processes are the best processes for welding jobs because they are more cost effective, more...
As the morning arise, first day at my new job, I’m excited but nervous at the same time, but before I discuss my new job let think back before I got the new job. Previously I was working at a dealership name Long Lewis Ford in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Things didn’t work out with me the pay wasn’t good enough. I was struggling to pay bills even though I got a degree in automotive. In so, one of my co-worker name Ryan was telling about this job fair at the Marriott in Florence, Alabama. Thinking I should apply for this job called Freightcar America in Cherokee, Alabama. He was telling me the pay is pretty good starting out $12 an hour.
Anybody and everybody can become an industrial machinery mechanic; especially, those who are passionate about getting their hands plastered in motor oil, grease, and other mechanical lubricants. These people will more than likely be ecstatic about getting into industrial machinery mechanics. They need to be able to put in one hundred ten percent of their effort into becoming an industrial machinery mechanic. An industrial machinery mechanic’s overall objective on the job is to stop a mechanical error before it happens. An industrial machinery mechanics are often caught repairing, maintaining, and fabricating machinery. They will be required to have certain education and training as well as some on the job training or complete an apprenticeship program. They will receive many benefits for working in this particular field.
There are jobs everywhere for welding, however how much you would like to make depends on where you are willing to work at. In my home town of Streator one of the main welding manufacturing shops is vactor which majority of our residents work in. Entry level wage for welders is typically $17/hr or higher. Welding can be very hard on the body when safety precautions are not taken. All welders should wear safety equipment such as: safety goggles, welding mask with proper shade, gloves, flame retardant jacket, pants, boots, and a welding cap. The purpose is to ensure the safety of the welder and those around him. Safety precautions are not only taken by the welders but also the supervisors and managers. It is their job to manage the exhaust in shops by law, many welding shops have ventilation systems installed just like the one in our welding shop. There are ways around not having a ventilation system; for example vactor workers carry specialized venting systems built into their welding masks. Many of the health problems older welders face down the road could 've been prevented if they would have took the proper safety precautions when they were younger. The most common welding process used in welding manufacturing is mig, the reason being it is fast and efficient. Mig also leaves far less spatter so it makes for cleaner welds (Petkovsek). Welding manufacturing is also safer because workers are not
The recruiter told me Tig welding would be the best choice for me but I don’t know if I’m sure on that. I did a little research on pipe line welding but I couldn’t find too much of noting on the website I was on. The recruiter also told me Tig welding will be the hardest and take the longest to learn. I aren’t even tripping about that though because I know that in order for me to succeed something have to be hard alone the way, nothing comes easy for nobody.
Welding is a very important tool used in our daily lives. Welding is the process of joining two metal pieces together by applying heat. A filler helps to make the joint. Everything we use from trucks to houses have some type of welding in them. There are many types of welding careers to choose from. There is a great demand for welders today. My project was to build a table and candelabra out of metal. Most of the metal I gathered came from junk yards and had to be cleaned of rust.
Welding can be traced back to the ancient times. One of the earliest methods of welding is bronze age. when ancient people back then had small gold circular were made by pressured welding lap joined together. Then in the Iron Age the Egyptians and people in the eastern area learned to weld pieces of iron together. In the middle age blacksmithing was developed. Blacksmithing is when you weld a piece of metal and hammering it but it was in the 19 century that welding was invented as they know it today.
Welding is literally building a new world. The world would not be the way it is today if it was not for welding. As you look around, almost everything you see may have been welded. Welding has changed our world in numerous ways over the last hundred years, and continues to do so with the new advances and groundbreaking ways to weld.
Jonathan Atteberry claims, “T.I.G welding is difficult to learn and requires an elaborate welding rig of skills. It also uses a lot of electricity to make the welds clean and spatter less” (Parag 5). T.I.G welding is hard to learn because people have different hand coordination.... ... middle of paper ...