Welding And How Does It Work

What is welding and how does it work? Welding is the process of joining metals together. The metals are not joined together by brazing or soldering. They are bonded together by the use of extreme heat and gases. Welding can go back to several hundred years ago. There are also several different types of welding. There is GMAW, SMAW, GTAW, FCAW, and oxy-fuel welding. Welding can also even be done underwater.

Safety is an critical consideration for any welding project. All welders need to respect the job and there job’s safety. While welding you should wear the proper attire. Safety gloves, welding hood, and proper clothing is very important. Proper shoe care is also a big role in welding safety. Never have a dirty or cluttered work space.

cracking, and shallow penetration. A disadvantage of the SMAW welding process is that the slag must be chipped off the weld after the weld cools. Sometimes while chipping the slag, the weld can be influenced and cause weakness in the weld. But keep in mind, there is no such thing as an perfect weld. You do not have to be as skilled to SMAW weld. The SMAW welding process is one of the world’s most popular welding processes. SMAW welding uses either an DC or AC welding current as a power source. SMAW welding plays an important role in the metal industry.

Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) is also another type of the many welding processes. GMAW can also be referred to as Metal Inert Gas (MIG). Unlike stick welding, MIG does not have an electrode rod that produces an weld. In MIG welding, you use a gun that feeds out the electrode wire. You can control the speed of the wire that way you can make long welds without having to stop. The MIG process uses an wire electrode to produce an weld to join the metal together. The quality of the MIG process is heavily reliable. MIG welding has great penetration and hardly no porosity at all. Unlike GMAW that uses wire, there is no slag that has to be chipped away. The two main downfalls of MIG welding is porosity and dross. There is excessive amounts of similarities and differences with every process of welding. MIG welding is also another popular type of welding all across the world. Many people rely on MIG welding for welding metal and iron.

In OFW you join two pieces of metal together by gas flames without the application of pressure. This process combines the metal by melting the base metal and a filler metal. The flames are produced at the tip of the welding torch. Oxy fuel welding is basically the same as the other welding techniques. You are joining metals together in each process, but by a different way.

The majority of the skilled welders in the world today are men. There is only two percent of women out of two hundred thousand welders in the welding industry today. Female workers have an hard time finding a welding job becauses the men in the welding industry does not respect the women. Once a lady finds a welding job, they are more than likely not gonna have the same salary as a man welder. Women only make seventy eight cents to every dollar a man makes in the

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welding industry. Not only is there two percent of women in the welding industry, there is only twenty seven percent of women that are currently working in the iron/metal