WELD-170 Gas Metal Arc Welding I

Credits 3 / 4 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into ACRD 080 . Pre- or Co-requisite: WELD-143 . Note: Students must provide their own safety glasses, welding jacket, welding gloves and leather work books for lab activities.
Gas Metal Arc Welding I students perform minor external repairs to equipment and accessories. Students will set up and perform (short circuit transfer) operations, making fillet and groove welds in all positions within a limited thickness range on carbon steel. Students will also set up and preform (spray transfer) operations, making fillet and groove welds in limited positions within a limited thickness range on carbon steel.

Course Outcomes
1. Performs safety inspection of equipment and accessories.

2. Make minor external repairs to GMAW equipment and accessories.

3. Set up for gas metal operations on plain carbon steel.

4. Operate GMAW equipment.

5. Makes fillet welds, all positions, on plain carbon steel, using the GMAW process, with short circuit transfer.

6. Make groove welds, all positions, on plain carbon steel, using the GMAW process, with short circuit transfer.

7. Make 1F - 2F fillet welds, on plain carbon steel, using the GMAW process, with spray transfer.

8. Make 1G (flat) groove welds, on plain carbon steel, using the GMAW process, with spray transfer