Audel Welding Pocket Reference

✍ Scribed by James E. Brumbaugh, Rex Miller

• Publisher: Audel
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Series: Audel Technical Trades Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Featuring updated charts dealing with the most common situations welding workers face on the job , this comprehensive, pocket-sized reference is based on recommendations from working professionals and covers welding symbols and definitions, types of joints and welds, typical welding station configurations, oxygen cylinders, arc-welding charts, U.S metric measures, and more.

✦ Table of Contents

Audel Welding PocketReference......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
1. WELDING AND CUTTING SAFETY......Page 15
2. OXYACETYLENE WELDING......Page 27
3. OXYACETYLENE CUTTING......Page 61
4. SHIELDED METAL ARC WELDING......Page 95
5. ARC WELDING AND CUTTING......Page 131
6. BRAZING AND BRAZE WELDING......Page 161
7. SOLDERING......Page 179
8. IDENTIFYING METALS......Page 213
9. CAST IRON......Page 231
10. WROUGHT IRON......Page 247
11. CARBON STEELS......Page 251
12. ALLOY STEELS......Page 257
13. REACTIVE AND REFRACTORY METALS......Page 269
14. GALVANIZED METALS......Page 279
15. SOFT METALS WELDING......Page 283
16. MAGNESIUM AND MAGNESIUM ALLOYS......Page 303
17. LEAD, TIN AND ZINC......Page 315
18. HARDFACING AND TOOL AND DIE STEELS......Page 319
19. TYPES OF JOINTS......Page 333
20. WELDING POSITIONS......Page 335
21. TYPES OF WELDS......Page 341
22. WELD TERMINOLOGY......Page 347
23. WELDING SYMBOLS......Page 355
24. TIPS FOR PRODUCING GOOD WELDS......Page 401
APPENDIX A: SMAW CARBON STEEL ELECTRODES......Page 403
APPENDIX B: SMAW STAINLESS STEEL ELECTRODES......Page 415
APPENDIX C: SMAW ALUMINUM ELECTRODES......Page 425
APPENDIX D: CONVERSION TABLES......Page 429