A text book on welding and cutting metals by the oxyacetylene process; by Vulcan Process Co & Burrows Charles Herbert 1874-

Author:Vulcan Process Co & Burrows, Charles Herbert, 1874-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Welding, Metal-cutting
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn., Vulcan Process Co.
Published: 1915-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

time, care, or expense he may devote to thoroughly doing- his work and there is no excuse for slighting the job on the pretext that his customer will object to the expense. The only complaint that could justly be made, would be for time covered by idleness, for lack of foresight that may cause loss of time or delay, or charging for a service which you are not ecfuipped to render.

Any equipment the welder can provide, will lessen the cost of the work and often facilitate better work. Therefore equipment sufficient for the work you expect to handle is an asset, which can hardly be dispensed with. Such conveniences as an assortment of handy tools arranged within easy reach, benches, brick welding tables, preheating furnaces, and facilities for handling heavy work, contribute to good service and the pleasure of work, and are conveniences that may be built and installed during ones spare moments.

Many welders have started their plant in a very modest way, buying their gases in drums and in every way curtailing the amount of the original investment. As their btisiness grew their mind was occupied in pursuing their trade, and the fact that their acetylene was costing them more than twice as much as it should, (lid not occur to them until they learned that a competitor charged one cent a foot for acetylene and made profit on it; whereas he could not make a profit on acetylene at 2 T-4C n foot. This leads to the explanation that acetylene in drums has an economic place in plants that have to be quickly transported to some remote location, over rough roads, in cold weather and also in shops where the occasions for using the apparatus are not very frequent. The cost of acteylenc in drums is 2c per foot at the recharging station and to this cost is added freight and cartage, while the cost of acetylene generated on the premises of the welding shop, seldom exceeds 7-8c per foot. In a shop where the welder uses the torch 6 hours a day, the saving effected, by generating his own acetylene, will amount to $2.50 or $3.00 per day.

In shops that are provided with an acetylene generator it is advisable to give it a permanent location in some corner where it will be out of the way and protected against freezing.

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