Welding 101?
 

For Christmas, my wife bought me a small oxy/acetylene welding set and now I have to learn how to weld...

Any good resources on the Internet or good books you guys can recommend on this subject? I'm a complete welding newb.

-Todd

I do not think you will be welding anything. Now cutting on the other hand, you are good to go.

i've been trying to attend a welding class at the local votec school for 2+ years now, every semester they insist on class being tuesday nights and i can't make it, but what i'm saying is i'd take a class, the one i want to take is $850 and 3.5 months long 2 night s a week

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grab some metal run some beads and just plain weld shit up. best way to learn wear gloves flannel shirt and pants. once you get to welding in your shop you tend to forget this and sunburn the living piss out of yourself. my dumbass has done this a few times:vash:

+1 on taking a class. I had to take a welding and casting class for my major last year and learned a lot.

Hmmm... Never thought about taking a class. That could be fun. I was too nerdy in high school to take a good shop class.

In the meanwhile, I'll just start welding some crap together. I didn't even realize that it came with a small manual that has a basic welding tutorial, read some of it in the crapper this afternoon. It's like welding for 6 year olds... Maybe I'll bring it over to my sister-in-law's and see if her kids can weld up with something. :)

Best bet is to find a friend who welds and doesn't mind coming over to show you some stuff from time to time. When I first got my Mig welder a friend came over to give me a few pointers. He works on another shift so that was the only time we hooked up but the 15 minutes of hands on in your face was worth it. Yeah, a class would be better but with the Mig a class really isn't a huge requirement once you know what the knobs and stuff does.

(yes, I know my welds would be better with 40 hours of classroom instruction but I don't have time for that)