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Taking a Look at Welding

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“ If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I’d carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart- Aleck cowboy said something like “ Hey, look. He’s carrying a soldering iron!” Thats right, it’s a soldering iron. The Soldering Iron of Justice”. Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink” (Handy). Soldering is a process that uses low-melting point metal alloys to join metallic surfaces without melting them. Welding is a fabrication process that joins materials by melting the workpieces and adding filler material to form a pool of molten material that cools to become a strong joint. Brazing is a metal- joining process whereby a filler metal is heated above melting point and distributed between two or more close- fitting parts. It is important to know when to use certain processes to join metals. There are different methods to join different types of metals and it very important to choose the right one because it could mess up your project or job you are working on. Messing up a piece can cause someone to lose money and the company you work for. In Metal Fabrication Industry it is important to know when to use welding, soldering and brazing. Welding is one way to join metals. In other words, welding is the process of joining metals by melting the parts and then using a filler to form a joint. It can be done

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