Oxyfuel Gas Welding and Cutting, 8th Edition

Oxyfuel Gas Welding and Cutting provides students with a simple, unintimidating text to use when learning oxyfuel gas welding, cutting, and allied process (brazing, braze welding, and torch soldering). This convenient write-in text is divided into 35 small, easy-to-understand units, with a series of review questions at the end of the unit to reinforce and evaluate student learning. The first section of the book provides students with general welding knowledge they need in order to successfully study and apply oxyfuel processes, including measurement, safety, and the interpretation of the welding symbols used in construction drawings. Subsequent units step students through learning the various processes in small increments, ensuring that students thoroughly understand theory and master technique before proceeding to the next step.

• Includes units on specialized applications, such as welding aluminum, welding thick steel, and braze welding cast iron.
• Provides instruction in both forehand and backhand welding, and addresses welding in all positions.
• Features numerous step-by-step procedures that walk students through complex techniques, such as setting up an oxyfuel gas welding rig; lighting, adjusting, and turning off a welding torch; and manually cutting steel plate with an oxyfuel gas cutting torch.
• Helps students identify qualities that render welds unacceptable and provides solutions to correct problems with technique that cause these problems.

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Table of Contents

Basic Welding Knowledge

1. Introduction to Oxyacetylene Welding
2. Welding Safety
3. Measurement in Welding
4. Welding Symbols

Preparation for Welding

5. Preparing the Joint
6. Oxyfuel Gases and Cylinders
7. Welding Torches and Tips
8. Assembly of Welding Equipment
9. Metal Identification
10. Welding Rods and Fluxes

Starting to Weld

11. The Welding Flame
12. Backhand and forehand Welding
13. Creating a Continuous Weld Pool
14. Running a Bead with Welding Filler Metal

Basic Welding Techniques

15. Lap Joint Welding
16. Outside Corner Joint Welding
17. T-Joint Welding
18. Butt Joint Welding
19. Out-of-Position Welding
20. Inspection of Welds

Cutting Techniques

21. Cutting Equipment
22. Cutting Processes

Welding Techniques for Thick Materials

23. Lap Joint Welding Thick Steel
24. T-Joint Welding Thick Steel
25. Butt Joint Welding Thick Steel

Aluminum Welding

26. Welding Aluminum

Brazing Techniques

27. Brazing Processes
28. Brazing Lap Joints
29. Running a Bead with Brazing Filler Metal
30. Braze Welding Lap and T-Joints
31. Braze Welding Butt Joints
32. Braze Welding Cast Iron

Soldering Techniques

33. Soldering

Technical Information

34. Additional Welding Techniques
35. Professional Welding Advanceent

Metric Conversion Tables

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Front Matter (PDF, 845.72 KB)

Unit 14 (PDF, 593.64 KB)

Unit 21 (PDF, 665.05 KB)

About the Author(s)

Kevin E. Bowditch - Kevin E. Bowditch is a retired welding engineer specialist for Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. His welding experience includes working for two automotive firms, two aerospace firms, a construction company (building nuclear plants), and a precision sheet metal firm. His initial welding training was at the Hobart Institute of Welding Technology. He earned his bachelor’s degree in welding engineering from The Ohio State University, and has attended specialized conferences and courses sponsored by the American Welding Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and American National Standards Institute. At Subaru, he helped develop and validate welding parameters to make over one billion spot and arc welds per year. Kevin Bowditch joined his father as a coauthor of Modern Welding, beginning with the 1984 edition, and has been a coauthor of Welding Fundamentals since its first edition was published in 1991.

Mark A. Bowditch -

Mark A. Bowditch joined the Bowditch team of welding authors in 1998, when he coauthored Oxyfuel Gas Welding with his brother Kevin Bowditch. Mark Bowditch has more than 10 years of experience as an educator, holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, and has taken classes at the Hobart Institute of Welding Technology. In addition to employing his expertise and communication skills in preparing this edition of Oxyfuel Gas Welding and Cutting, he has also assumed responsibility as a coauthor with his brother and father for the 2005 and later revisions of Welding Fundamentals and Modern Welding. He is also an officer in the United States Air Force Reserves.