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WELDING Welding is essential to the expansion and productivity of our industries. Welding has become one of the principal means of fabricating and repairing metal products. It is almost impossible to name an industry, large or small, that does not employ is type of welding. Industry has found that welding is an efficient, dependable, and economical means of joining metal in practically all metal fabricating operations and in most construction. In tooling-up for a new model automobile, a manufacturer may spend upward of a million dollars on welding equipment. Many buildings, bridges, and ships are the building of hospital additions, the value of welding as the chief means of joining steel sections id particularly significant. Without welding, the aircraft industries would never be able to meet the enormous demands for planes, rockets, and missiles. Rapid progress in the space program, has been made possible by new methods and knowledge of welding metallurgy. Probably the most sizable contribution welding has made to society is the manufacture of special products for household use. Welding processes are employed in the construction of such items as television sets, refrigerators, kitchen cabinets, dishwashers, and other similar products. As a means of fabrication, welding has proved fast, dependable, and flexible. It lowers production costs by simplifying design and eliminates costly patterns and machining operations. Welding is used extensively for the manufacture and repair of farm equipment, mining and oil machinery, machine tools, jigs and fixtures, and in the construction of boilers, furnaces, and railway cars. With improved techniques for adding new metal to worn parts, welding has also resulted in economy for highly competitive industries. Of the many processes of welding in use today, oxy-fuel gas welding, arc, and resistance dominate the field. These processes are best explained from the standpoint of the operator’ duties. The principal duty of the operator