Welders, maintenance and repair workers, supervisors, and apprentices in the welding trades will find this handy guide indispensable. Condensed from the current Audel Welder's Guide, Third Edition, it includes tables, essential drawings, lists, and updated charts dealing with the most common situations welding workers face on the job.

Your on-the-job reference

Whether you're constructing a building, making minor home repairs, or learning the trade, keep this guide in your toolbox. Find facts, safety guidelines, instructions, conversion tables, and plenty of answers here.

Metals, methods, machinery, and more

• Reviews safe cutting and welding practices and protective gear
• Shows how to work with cast iron, wrought iron, and alloy steels
• Covers arc welding, brazing, and braze welding
• Includes a guide to the correct electrodes to use for different metals
• Provides tips for producing good welds

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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.