Talk:Arc welding

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[edit] Valuable Links for Welding

I would like to add an outbound link to two great guides and resources that deal with the proper preparation and selection of material on tungsten electrodes. The link is at: www.diamondground.com/downloads.html. Do you feel that this would be appropriate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.112.164.100 (talk) 20:59, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I think this sounds good. Lon of Oakdale (talk) 19:43, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arc welding processes

  • Consummable electrode
    • Shielded metal arc welding
    • Gas metal arc welding (pulsed gas metal arc welding, short circuit gas metal arc welding)
    • Flux cored arc welding (gas-shielded flux cored arc welding, self-shielded flux cored arc welding)
    • Submerged arc welding (series submerged arc welding)
    • Electrogas welding
    • Bare metal arc welding
  • Non-consummable electrode
    • Gas tungsten arc welding (pulsed gas tungsten arc welding)
    • Plasma arc welding
    • Carbon arc welding (gas carbon arc welding, shielded carbon arc welding, twin carbon arc welding)
    • Arc stud welding
    • Atomic hydrogen welding
    • Magnetically impelled arc welding

According to AWS master chart on p21. Cary & Helzer --Spangineer (háblame) 15:09, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] German attack on New York harbor during WWI

As far as I can tell no such event ever happened. I don't know enough on the subject of arc welding to feel comfortable editing this page so if someone could take a look at it that would be great.

Andrew m plamondon 01:37, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

That comes from a welding textbook that says, "German ships interned in New York Harbor at the outbreak of the war had been scuttled by their crews so that the vessels could not be used in the Allied war effort." The wording is rather poor, since "attack" implies an offensive from the outside, but technically the Germans did damage to the US through this. I'll see about fixing the wording. —Spangineer[es] (háblame) 05:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hidden references

Why are the inline citations in this article hidden? Wouldn't it be better if they were in a form like the recently featured Gas tungsten arc welding or Gas metal arc welding? QmunkE 09:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

It probably would be better if they were visible, yes; I just haven't gotten around to converting them. --Spangineeres (háblame) 12:50, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

any possibilty of cross referencing Inverter power source's for welding?(Wouse101 22:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Safety Issues

Hexavalent chromium is a new issue in welding safety and protocal. OSHA has begun to set standards and limit exposure to hexavalent chromium. It's a large issue at my work place presently.

(ROBZZZ 15:35, 24 October 2006 (UTC))

OSHA Reference

"New" is a bit inappropriate here, it was well-known when I was working in a research team in 1980. I vaguely remember that measuring the hexavalent chromiumn content was difficult for some reason. rudy 22:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
I merely meant that it is now receiving more press. I'm fully aware that it's not new. I should've worded it differently. Of course I wrongly implied that exposure is due only to welding. It can come from cutting and grinding as well.(ROBZZZ 18:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC))


given the importance of SMAW welding, I would have thought that it would have rated more than a paragraph dismissing it as obsoleteRvannatta 00:51, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Temperature

I was hoping to find some information about the temperatures that arc welding can create. Also, temperature gradients, that is to say, how focused the temperature is, would also be interesting. Come to think of it, I would like to know about typical energy requirements and the definition of low and high penetration. Lon of Oakdale (talk) 19:51, 1 May 2008 (UTC)