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Welding Fabrication and Repair: Questions & Answers

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I bought a MIG welding machine and quickly learned to put down nice weld beads. But when I tried to weld up a project with angle iron, I quickly discovered I didn't know how to make anything. This book shows how to make square frames, and assemble other basic building blocks. There are also lots of rules of thumb and good industry practice, but no heavy math. If you're like me, you will save a lot of time, steel, and welding materials if you read this book before starting your welding project. Many helpful drawings.

This is the author's second book on welding in a Q and A format. The first was about how to weld, this is about how to make things using welding. Like the first book, this one has lots of line drawings. It discusses dozens of welding problems and their solutions, talks about common welding tools, marking and measuring methods, bending and straightening steel. There's material on adding rigidity, resisting torsion, welding truck frames and adding roll bars to unibodies. Many ways to use welding in fabrication are shown like adding threads, making leveling jacks, lots of ideas on how to weld up brackets, machine legs, bearing supports, and deck tie-downs. Subjects from weld distortion to metal fatigue are discussed in an easy-to-read format. Whether you're new to welding or an old hand, it will get you thinking about welding in new ways.

This is not your typical welding book. It's about how to use welding to make things, not how to make welds. If you want to build welded frames, tables, boxes, and join pipe, or repair truck frames, this is the book for you. There's also a good chapter on bending and straightening metals, and another on metal fatigue. Also, lots of how advice on solving--or avoiding--common welding problems. This book is written in plain English with a drawing on nearly every page.

This book is a handfull of badly written questions with answers that are so specific, unless you are doing the exact project/task they mention, the answers are totally useless. These are all trade specific answers. If youre a pipe fitter, or professional fabricator I would think you'd have a better way of learning than this book. Also the lack of an index makes this book infuriating to try and use as reference. Thank god I got this book free. Too bad there's not an option for zero stars.

Also note that all of the other reviews for this book are either anonymous or written by Mr. Tallman who is related to the illustrator.

I am an amateur welder who takes his welding seriously.

Two books that welder should have are:

The Procedure Handbook For Welding /Lincoln publications
New Lessons In Arc Welding/Lincoln publications

Both are available from Lincoln for absurdly low cost.

This book is a sort of complement to The Procedure Handbook. It covers a lot of the same subjects but with a very practical bent. It has tips on jigging and fixtures, how to design welds for common applications so that they minimize stress, how to design welds so that you can actually reach the joints when you construct them. Particularly interesting to me was a detailed section on bending or straightening steel by strategic heating and cooling. It also has useful guides on brazing and on soldering copper pipes. Though I am comfortable with both these procedures, I learned quite a bit from Marlowe's book.

It's easy to read, the diagrams are clear. Just a few minutes browsing will reward you with something useful you didnt know.

Perhaps if you are a pipeline welder or have been working in fabrication for 20 years, this book wont teach you much. But for the rest of us, it's a goldmine.

This book is one of my favorites. It is has so many "old school" tips and techniques. Good pictures and diagrams to explain the text also. I keep going back to it and brushing up on it's contents.

Again in the Q&A format, Dealing with real world fabrication issues. And tips and insights for solving them. They give clear concise info on the correct terms and descriptions. Of steel, piping, tubing, and other stuff we tend not to know the correct terms or use age of scheduling # of pipe/tube and the wall thickness. Again the contents page and the back cover says it all.

This book like the first book on welding is for the hobbyist/art/occasional welder. Along with the daily working welder. It covers tools,terms and descriptions that most Hobbyist/artists might not know when going to a supplier.It gives a basic over view of tools that are useful in a welding shop area. Covers repairs and the proper way of doing the planning,layout and execution of a job. bending of assorted shapes and ways for tubing and pipes. It will give you a very good idea if it will work, if you can do it with what you have. Or even what you may need to get to do a job you can be proud of.
It is a great shop reference with out the usual extra baggage of the text books they sell.

we would like to inform anyone getting this book that, at this time it does not ship within 24 hours. we are still waiting for ours and have been waiting for 6 days and, it still has not been sent out to be shipped. we will love this book when we finally get it!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you