Well it’s certainly not a difficult technique. Perhaps it doesn’t sound that simple after all, with all those different things to master. Providing he maintains the appropriate lead and slope angle, together with a suitable travel speed, the electrode will produce a regular bead of suitable profile, almost on its own. With the drag technique, the electrode is simply dragged across the work and the diver only has to apply a slight downward pressure, whilst the electrode is being consumed.

It is true to say that touch techniques are not the only way in which wet welding can take place, but certainly at the basic/standard level, they are the only techniques required. Of course, as you become very much more competent you can and will start to deviate to styles of your own. This is the basic principle of all underwater wet welding. The three basic techniques I teach for underwater wet-stick welding are as follows:Īll these are touch techniques. There is simply no need for anything clever in producing a good underwater wet-weld. This is because the basic techniques of wet welding are in fact, very simple. He must accept that the range of personal skill and talent he has for surface welding, in the early stages of training, will do him no good at all when it comes to wet welding. You see for an experienced surface welder, the range of skills and manipulative techniques he understands will work on surface, given a particular circumstance, offer little help underwater. However, I have yet to meet the surface welder who can simply turn his hand to wet-welding techniques without some short term difficulties.

'Well it will depend up on whether you can disassociate yourself from accepted surface welding practice, quickly enough'. Of greater surprise, is my usual reply to experienced surface welders. Having trained well over a couple of hundred divers over the years, with the odd exception, it would be expected that a non-welder could achieve multipass fillet weldments in at least the horizontal-vertical and vertical down positions within this time frame. Well, barring any lack of basic co-ordination skills, the answer is yes. Often when I speak to divers, I am asked if as a non-welder I can teach someone to weld to a satisfactory standard in two weeks. To publish here, in the Welding Advisers Website, Preview3, an extract fromįor successful wet-welding, whether you are an experienced or novice welder, the first thing you have to accept is the range of personal skills which may be used for surface welding, do not exist for underwater. International Welding Technologist / Senior Welding Inspector Of a very important Book on Underwater Wet Welding, titled We are glad and proud of having been authorized by the Author Preview3: This is the third and last extract from the proposed book.

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