Welding for Beginners – MIG and FCAW
Don’t let welding intimidate you out of doing it yourself, trying it at home. Whether you plan on being entirely self-taught or YouTube taught, or learn at a vocational school, adult school, or community college, it is going to take some consistent practice to get...
Welding Variables – Talking Voltage and Amperage
When it comes to weld penetration, the current (amperage) has the upper hand. When it comes to welding, penetration is more technically known as “depth of fusion,” which is a measure of how far a weld extends into the base metal from the surface melted during welding....
The History of Metalworking
It has been pointed out that without fire, there would be no metalworking (nor metallurgy). It takes fire to heat metal so that it is malleable. It takes fire to heat ore so that metal can be extracted. Without fire, gold jewelry might be mankind’s only experience...
Metallurgy and Modern Metalworking
Metal may not make the world go ‘round, but it does make the world modern, in the most basic sense. Metal started out as esoteric substances hidden away in rocks. Once the properties of metals became known, those rocks became ore. The rest, as they say, is history....