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HOBART POCKET WELDING
GUIDE – YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW
By Randall M. Rueff
Welding Instructor
Ivy Tech Community College
Columbus, Indiana
Since before I struck my first arc in Mr. Malcolm R.
Stalcup’s welding class in the
C.A.V.P. (Columbus Area Vocation
Program) at
Columbus North High School in Columbus, Indiana, to
my one-year stint at the Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
in Troy, Ohio… to my time welding high pressure vessels at
Penway in Edinburgh, Indiana… to my time as a fork lift welder
at
T.I.E.M. (Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing) in
Columbus, Indiana… to my time as a welding instructor at the
Columbus, Indiana campus of Ivy Tech Community College… the
Hobart Pocket Welding Guide has been at my side the entire
time.
Whether it’s
information on what type of rod or how hot to run the rod for a
particular type and thickness of metal to what type of shielding
gas and how much to use, the Hobart Pocket Welding Guide
has always been the greatest source of welding information
containing the answers I need.
As an
instructor, it has all of the basic information I need to give
my students. It contains the basics of the art and science of
welding technology with everything from what each process is and
does… to what to do to get a good weld, with pictures of good
and bad welds and how they differ… and how to go from a bad to a
good welding technique. There is information on types of rod(s),
polarity, and settings that are needed for a particular type of
metal, as well as information on blueprints and symbols and what
they are and how they are used, so that a project on paper can
become reality in the real world, whether for profit or just for
fun.
In short, the
Hobart Pocket Welding Guide has been an invaluable tool
throughout all parts of my welding career… from my personal
education… to my time welding… to my current job of teaching
others what I have learned during my time as a welder. I look
forward to seeing what this new 28th edition of the
Hobart Pocket Welding Guide has to offer for me and my
students.
You can be sure
that this new 28th edition and any other future
editions of the Hobart Pocket Welding Guide will be used
for a long time to come, not only at the Columbus, Indiana
campus of Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana where I teach,
but everywhere I and many others go where welding information,
technology, and skill is needed and used.
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