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Welding Information Gathering

Information. Knowledge. Wisdom. The formula is quite simple, but it must be followed in that order. To have the next, you must have the first. It all sounds great until you factor in just how much information there is today to sift through.

Take welding for example. It's not a complicated idea. Take two pieces of metal, and make them one continueous piece. Enter complication: with all the different alloys and filler metals available, plus all the properties of each, there is a huge amount of information available that must be accounted for in order to get a finished product that will last.

To aid in my own informational gathering, I have come across (by way of my Dad, and my Instructor) two websites that appear to be vast resources of Weld Process and Joint Design, and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT).

Unfortunatly, gathering said information takes huge amounts of time. Oh, and modivation. I wonder where modivation comes from?