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Welcome to Maxwell HS of Technology Welding Technology. Instructor. Charles J. Kachmar A.K.A. Coach K, Mr. K Connecticut, BS Industrial Technology UGA, Masters of Education Engineering UGA Education Specialist, Ed. Leadership and Workforce Development
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Instructor • Charles J. Kachmar • A.K.A. Coach K, Mr. K • Connecticut, BS Industrial Technology • UGA, Masters of Education Engineering • UGA Education Specialist, Ed. Leadership and Workforce Development • Married, CJ 10, Caitlyn 5, Thomas my huntin’ dawg beagle. • South Gwinnett, Grayson, Tucker, Maxwell
Instructor • Team Teacher
Introductions • State your name, nickname ok. • State what school you are from. • State whether you are a junior or senior. • What was you most fun class at school and why?
Student Information Card • This information is kept on file in the event of an emergency. All information MUST be complete before you are allowed in the welding lab.
Essential Equipment • Eye Protection • ISO Z87.1 Safety Glasses/ANSI Z89
Essential Equipment • Eye Protection • Welding Helmet – Digital or Not
Essential Equipment • Gloves
Essential Equipment • Leather Boots
Essential Equipment • Grinder & Cutting Shield Helmet
Essential Equipment • Wire Hammer, Wire Brush, MIG Wire Cutting Pliers
Shirts and Pants • Shirts – NO NYLON, or SYNTHETIC OR SHORT SLEEVE • Cotton Thick Weave • Pants – NO NYLON SWEATS, OR SHORTS. • Blue jeans are best, or cargo pants • Watch the number of pockets as spatter and hot metal chips can easily get in your pockets, smolder and burn you.
Introduction to Welding • AWS – American Welding Society
Introduction to Welding • Maxwell High School Student Chapter of AWS • Sign-up Sheet. • Free Membership • AWS will give school $100 grant for membership.
Introduction to Welding Skills USA Welding Competition
Introduction to Welding • AWS defines welding as a joining process that produces coalescence of materials by heating them to the welding temperature, with or without the application of pressure alone, and with or without the use of filler metal. • Forge Welding – 1750 to 1850 (Ancient China and Japan) • Resistance Welding – Elihu Thompson 1886 • Fusion Welding - WWI
Introduction to Welding Forge Welding
Introduction to Welding Resistance Welding
Introduction to Welding Fusion Welding – Modern Welding
Introduction to Welding • A Weld is a localized coalescence (the fusion or growing together of a grain structure of the materials being welded) of metals and non-metals produced either by heating the materials to the required welding temperatures, with or without the use of filler materials. • Show and Tell
Introduction to Welding • What could happen…REALLY?
Introduction to Welding • What could happen…REALLY?
Introduction to Welding • What could happen…REALLY?