Welding: Books

Master MIG welding and the metal fabrication techniques you need to repair, create, and duplicate projects in your home welding studio. Learn to Weld starts with the basics: setting up your studio, the right safety gear and safety procedures, and the equipment and materials you will need to begin with welding. With the help of step-by-step metalworking photos and tutorials, you will learn detailed techniques for cutting and grinding, and for joinery using a MIG welder. Practice the techniques and projects, and you'll soon be able to repair, create, and duplicate metal fabrication projects in your own welding studio. Best of all, you will have both the fundamental skills and the confidence you need to create whatever is in your imagination. With Learn to Weld you'll be equipped to conquer a world of welding projects.

104 pages covering Safety in Welding, Gases used in Welding, Welding Torches

Today's plasma cutters are easy to operate and are an indipensable and very reliable tool for any automotive professional or amateur.Custom builder Eddie Paul uses plasma cutters to help design and build hundreds of project vehicles for Hollywood movie and television shows.In the Plasma Cutting Handbook, he demonstrates the techniques he's learned over the years.This guide will help you select and teach you how to operate a plasma cutter safely and efficiently. You'll learn basic cutting techniques, how to troubleshoot cutting problems, advanced tips and techniques, and the basics of CNC plasma cutting.

This comprehensive handbook covers all commercially available welding processes. It helps the reader select the best suited process for their application and provides an understanding of each process by presenting the limitations and benefits. The focus on practical aspects such as weldability, optimizing part design, troubleshooting, and testing makes this book an indispensable tool for everyone involved in welding of plastics. At the same time it also conveys the basic theoretical principles of plastic welding, such as squeeze flow, molecular diffusion, and heat transfer mechanisms.