Page 17 - HIWT Summer 2016 World of Welding

Required topics that were taught for badge programs:
One hour classroom related instructions on the following:
Safety in a metal shop
Careers in welding and metal fabrication trades
Oxy/act fuel safety and cutting
Hand held Plasma cutting
GMAW weld process
SMAW weld process
Types of electrode and filler wire
PPE safety equipment
Basic metallurgy – type of metals – alloys – periodic table of
elements –
How carbon affects iron
Alum, Stainless, carbon steel, bronze, copper , steel, wrought iron
Tool making – Annealing, quenching, tempering, hardening.
Projects:
Not: Assabet students set up stations and assisted each ground of
scouts as they rotated through their project stations
1. Copper feather with annealing techniques – how copper element
work hardening and how to make soft again
2. Basic forged wall hook – blacksmithing , hammer and anvil , gas
fired forge 2, 000 degrees – drill press ¼ inch holes
3. Forging a Center punch /chisel heat treating high carbon steel –
oil quenching, tempering
4. Sheet metal box with hems, riveting, notching, and spot welding
5. GMAW fillet welds, butt welds, welding initials in a steel
plate—option
6. SMAW fillet welds, padding, 6011, 7018
7. Oxy/fuel cutting ½ plate straight lines, squiggly lines, circle
8. Hand held plasma cutting

At the end of the day, Assabet students were thrilled to show young
scouts their welding and metal program. Young adults teaching
young adults now that’s a great concept. The only things Assabet
students received was a few slices of pizza for lunch but even more
a sense of pride and honor that they made a difference in teaching
a young scout about their honorable trade of welding – keeping the
world held together and forging friendships by one weld at a time.
To all welding students both young and old, share your passion,
help another person learn the art of welding, who just might
be contagious. Be creative, be skillful, be safe, be a welding
ambassador to your community.

Respectfully,
Mr. Mansfield
Metal fabrication teacher
US Navy welder Ret.
Hobart graduate, CWI/CWE
Third generation NYC Iron worker

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