Ebook: Everyday Pocket Handbook for Shielded Metal Arc Welding

This guide emphasizes SMAW electrode care, handling, and use and will be a useful tool for on-the-job welding personnel. It includes convenient charts on meaning of classification suffixes, suggested amperage ranges, stub loss, electrode orientation, suggested joint designs, and more.
Content:
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
1. Basic Safety Precautions
• 2. AWS Specifications for Covered Electrodes
• 3. Engineering Functions of SMAW Electrode Coatings
• 4. Current Requirements for SMAW Electrode Classifications
• 5. Classification System for Carbon Steel Electrodes for SMAW
• 6. Interpretation of Last Digit in AWS Electrode Classification
• 7. Meaning of Suffix in Classification of Carbon Steel and Low-Allow Steel SMAW Electrodes
• 8. Electrode Deposition Efficiency and Stub Loss Factors
• 9. Suggested Amperage Ranges for Carbon Steel and Low-Alloy Steel Electrodes
• 10. Deposition Rate, 5/32 in. Diameter Covered Electrodes
• 11. Typical Shielded Metal Arc Electrode Orientation and Welding Technique for Carbon Steel Electrodes
12. Suggested Amperage Ranges
• 13. Proper Care and Handling of SMAW Electrodes
• 14. Special Precautions for Low-Hydrogen Electrodes
• 15. Guide to Conditioning and Storage of Steel Electrodes
• 16. Permissible Atmospheric Exposure of Low-Hydrogen Electrodes
• 17. Suggested Joint Designs for SMAW Applications
• 18. Basic Welding Symbols and Their Location Significance
• 19. Location of Elements of a Welding Symbol