The Essential Welder: Gas Tungsten Metal Arc Welding

This new text and lab book combination provides a complete, concise and modern introduction to gas tungsten arc welding! Coverage progresses from the basics of equipment and materials through the essentials of assembly, fabrication, and layout techniques. The textbook is filled with practical welding exercises; the lab book adds more of these as well as projects designed to challenge and motivate the student, as well as additional review questions. A practical and real-world approach pervades this book. There is an emphasis on safety, and AWS terminology is used throughout. An Instructor's Guide includes an answer key for all exercises and projects.

Customer Reviews:

Has some good info but........

By Matthew Clark - October 10, 2008

This does do a decent job of covering the basics of tig welding as has good info in it if you have never done it before but it really, needs to be updated! Poor illustrations and print quality and lacking depth of knowledge and current information.

Excellent Educational Text

By torque20 - February 29, 2004

"The Essential Welder" is an excellent publication for the beginning to advanced welding student who wants to know what is happening at the molecular level during the GTAW and GMAW process. Can be used and understood by the average layman who has basic a understanding of the metal's physical properties up through college level engineering courses.