Courtesy of kenm@daffy.cac.washington.edu.
Here's a source of good and inexpensive welding books. A catalog is available from:
Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation
PO Box 17035
Cleveland, OH 44117
They list a couple of dozen titles. Here are nutshell reviews of the ones I've seen:
Metals and How to Weld Them, 400 pg, $5.00
A great book on the metallurgy of welding. It's not a how-to-weld book, but instead answered the Why? type questions I've had for years.
Principles of Industrial Welding, 384 pg, $6.50
Your run-of-the-mill textbook.
Design of Weldments, 464 pg, $7.00
A text on the design of welded machinery etc. There is a different book on welded structures. Well worth it it you are designing your own projects.
New Lessons in Arc Welding, 528 pg, $5.00
Hard to describe - kind of a lab manual for a welding tips. Certainly worth the $5.
Arc Welded Projects Vol 2, 272 pg, $5.00
Arc Welded Projects Vol 3, 170 pg, $4.50
Full of short (couple of page) descriptions of all kinds of rather ambitious projects - a tractor snowblower, log splitter, chariot, sailboat, woodstove, ....
These are good books at any price, and great books at these prices.
According to Jim Campbell ( campbellj@fdtc.flo.TEC.SC.US):
For those asking Mig theory questions, are you getting enough info in your operator's manual (When all else fails)? A good little book on Mig is ESAB's "Mig Welding Handbook" revised in 1994. Only $7.50 and evaluation copies FREE for students/educators/advisors to schools, or whatever. ESAB was once Union Carbide/Linde. They may sell a small Mig unit too, but I am not familiar with theirs. ESAB's snail mail is: PO Box 100545 Florence, SC 29501-0545 and voice is (803) 669-4411. (I do not work for them, but use their mechanized stuff).