The Essential Welder: Gas Tungsten Metal Arc Welding / Edition 1

by Larry Jeffus

Overview

This new book and lab manual combination provides a complete, concise and modern introduction to gas tungsten arc welding! Coverage progresses from the basics of equipment and materials through the essentials of assembly, fabrication, and layout techniques. The book is filled with practical welding exercises; the lab manual adds more of these as well as projects designed to challenge and motivate the user, as well as additional review questions. A practical and real-world approach pervades this book. There is an emphasis on safety, and AWS terminology is used throughout. An Instructor's Guide is available that includes an answer key for all exercises and projects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780827376144
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	12/15/1999
Series:	Essential Welder Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.62(w) x 10.91(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Larry Jeffus is a welder with over 55 years of experience, and he maintains his own well-equipped welding shop. In his career he has passed many welding certification tests in a wide variety of processes, positions, and material types and thicknesses. Jeffus has provided welding and professional consulting services locally, nationally, and internationally to major corporations, small businesses, government agencies, schools, colleges, and individuals. He is a Life Member of the American Welding Society. In addition, he has over 40 years of experience as a dedicated classroom teacher and is the author of several Cengage welding publications. Prior to retiring from teaching, Jeffus taught at Eastfield College, part of the Dallas County Community College District. Today he remains very active in the welding community, especially in the field of education. He serves on several welding program technical advisory committees and has visited high school, college, and technical campuses in more than 40 states and four foreign countries, providing one-on-one help and guidance to welding instructors and students. Jeffus was selected as Outstanding Post-Secondary Technical Educator in the State of Texas by the Texas Technical Society, and he served for 12 years as a board member on the Texas Workforce Investment Council in the Texas Governor's office. He also served as a member of the Apprenticeship Project Leadership Team, helping establish apprenticeship training programs for Texas, and he has made numerous trips to Washington lobbying for vocational and technical education.

Table of Contents

SECTION 1 INTERDICTION: Interdiction to GTA Welding. Safety. Power Supplies, and Currents. Torches, Hoses and Nozzles. Tungsten. Shielding Gas and Flow Meters. Filler Metal. Welding Symbols. Layout and Fabrication. Welding Standards. SECTION 2 ASSEMBLY AND SETUP: Equipment Assembly. Equipment Setup. Shielding Gas Setup. Preparation for Welding. Starting an ARC. Setup for Welding Mild Steel. Setup for Welding Stainless Steel. Setup for Welding Aluminum. Setup for Welding Pipe. Setup for Welding Alloys. SECTION 3 FLAT POSITION WELDING: Mild Steel Welding. Stainless Steel Welding. Aluminum Welding. SECTION 4 HORIZONTAL POSITION WELDING: Mild Steel Welding. Stainless Steel Welding. Aluminum Welding. SECTION 5 VERTICAL POSITION WELDING: Mild Steel Welding. Stainless Steel Welding. Aluminum Welding. SECTION 6 OVERHEAD POSITION WELDING: Mild Steel Welding. Stainless Steel Welding. Aluminum Welding. SECTION 7 PIPE WELDING: Horizontal Rolled Position. Horizontal Fixed Position. Vertical Fixed Position. 45 Fixed Position. SECTION 8 WELDER CERTIFICATION: Qualified and Certified Welders. AWS Entry Level Welder Qualification and Welder Certification. Weld Testing & Inspection.