viii Brief Contents Part 1 Welding Fundamentals 1 Safety in the Welding Shop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Print Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3 Welding Joints, Positions, and Symbols . . . . . . 37 4 Welding and Cutting Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Part 2 Shielded Metal Arc Welding 5 Shielded Metal Arc Welding Equipment and Supplies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 6 Shielded Metal Arc Welding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Part 3 Gas Metal and Flux Cored Arc Welding 7 GMAW and FCAW Equipment and Supplies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 8 Gas Metal and Flux Cored Arc Welding. . . . . 195 Part 4 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding 9 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Equipment and Supplies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 10 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Part 5 Plasma Arc Cutting 11 Plasma Arc Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Part 6 Oxyfuel Gas Processes 12 Oxyfuel Gas Welding Equipment and Supplies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 13 Oxyfuel Gas Welding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 14 Oxyfuel Gas Cutting Equipment and Supplies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 15 Oxyfuel Gas Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 16 Soldering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 17 Brazing and Braze Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 Part 7 Resistance Welding 18 Resistance Welding Equipment and Supplies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 19 Resistance Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513 Part 8 Special Processes 20 Special Welding Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 21 Special Ferrous Welding Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 22 Special Nonferrous Welding Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583 23 Pipe and Tube Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 24 Special Cutting Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637 25 Underwater Welding and Cutting. . . . . . . . . . 657 26 Automatic and Robotic Welding . . . . . . . . . . . 677 27 Metal Surfacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697 Part 9 Metal Technology 28 Metal Production, Properties, and Identifi cation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719 29 Heat Treatment of Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745 Part 10 Professional Welding 30 Inspecting and Testing Welds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767 31 Procedure and Welder Qualifi cations . . . . . . . 791 32 The Welding Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825 33 Getting and Holding a Job in the Welding Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845 34 Technical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893