WELD-174 Flux Cored 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 boots for lab activities.
Flux Cored Arc Welding I students perform minor external repairs to equipment and accessories. Students will set up and perform (self-shielding) operations, making fillet and groove welds in all positions within a limited thickness range on carbon steel. Students will also perform (gas-shielded) operations, making fillet and groove welds in all positions within a limited thickness range on carbon steel.

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

2. Make minor external repairs to flux cored arc welding equipment and accessories.

3. Set up for flux cored arc-welding operations on plain carbon steel.

4. Operate flux cored arc-welding equipment.

5. Make fillet welds, all positions, on plain carbon steel, using the FCAW process, with self-shielding electrodes.

6. Make groove welds, all positions, on plain carbon steel, using the FCAW process, with self-shielded electrodes.

7. Make fillet welds, all positions, on plain carbon steel, using the FCAW process, with gas-shielding electrodes.

8. Make groove welds, all positions, on plain carbon steel, using the FCAW process, with gas-shielded electrodes.