Course Overview
This Twenty-four (24)-hour training course will familiarize the student with the basic principles of GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding), using MIG welder. The course will provide basic skills using MIG welder on mild steel and positions. This course incorporates both lecture and hands-on exercises. This course length is designed to familiarize existing welders to MIG Welding and improve their welding skills.
Performance Objectives:
• Understand and practice welding safety
• Perform a safety inspection on the equipment
• Demonstrate an understanding of GMAW equipment
• Properly set up equipment to perform a weld
• Understand power sources and settings for making a MIG weld including voltage and amperage settings
• Understand weld wire part numbers and identify describe weld wires by their part numbers
• Determine correct wire to use based on the situation
• Understand the purpose and use of shielding gases
• Identify common welding problems
and their causes
• Demonstrate an understanding of welding principles, procedures, technique, and application
• Properly perform a weld in the flat position
• Properly perform a horizontal weld
• Properly perform a vertical weld
• Practice, practice, practice…