Arc Welding at Work - 1948

[@TheHossHobart]

These General Electric films are highly educational.

[@Twinhit]

Awesome! Thanks! Please don't delete.

[@Techno0908]

Its very interesting to see the atomic hydrogen arc welding, which Im guessing led to TIG welding further along in the development.

[@SlapHappy]

22:50 for inert arc welding, also known know as tig welding. atomic hydrogen arc welding was something different.

[@simonp347]

Kodachrome has the best color ever

[@MrShobar]

HAD the best color ever. What a loss to the civilized world when Kodachrome disappeared.

[@teresashinkansen9402]

My 11 year old digital camera has better color reproduction and still takes photos, no need to worry about films going out of production, lol.

[@autophyte]

I'm amazed that they had MIG welding back in 1946.

[@Laura-wc5xt]

was not mig, hat came as an offshoot of tig in the 50's.

[@100texan2]

MIG welding is for babies, real welders learn on stick first.

[@stuglenn1112]

You can always tell a Texan but you can't tell em much.

[@stuglenn1112]

@Creamapera I reckon so. lol

[@jimmartin7881]

@Creamapera Absolutely, I get kids come in answering an ad and they always say "I can weld" on the phone. They walk in (usually late by a few minutes and in sneakers) I hand them a stinger, ground and 4 pieces of angle and tell them up, down, lap, butt and point to the rod oven and machine. Some will try and fudge it, some just up and walk out, I get 90 percent BSers when I put out a help wanted sign. And they usually suck at mig too which is plain sad.

[@AlphaFlight]

you'd be surprised how little has changed. anything released today, is only a slight improvement. But hasn't changed anything.

[@melgross]

Adrian Nava well, welds are actually much better today. Today’s machines and processes, which didn’t exist then, allow welds that couldn’t be made, and for welds that could, better quality.

[@randacnam7321]

@@melgross Higher quality is possible today, but often things are made worse.

[@melgross]

@@randacnam7321 not really.

[@buchan1965a]

This was made in 1946 (the copyright on the title screen), not 1948.

[@moncorp1]

Welding robots in 1948. Albeit crude, but amazing nonetheless.

[@waswestkan]

The construction of the rear axle housing was amazing to see Very informative No longer will I dismiss welded construction, where one would expect to see cast construction Not that I'm saying that their can't be no bad welded engineering or construction of parts out there Just saying I'd be using a different critical lens for them now Thanks for posting

[@outwhitu08]

Alright im sold on it! Weld it!

[@weldingdata]

These are great welding videos. How many welding videos were made by GE? I'd love to see all of them. I have used a couple for my onling moodle welding course.

[@rogerwilco2]

Cool video.

[@autophyte]

Correction: I meant to say "TIG" welding.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

Well, it's well known that TIG (As "Heliarc") welding was a wartime development! Northrup I think, trying to make magnesium aircraft.

[@francesbernard2445]

Where did the original video go?

[@ninonino7532]

The TIG welding is not resist in 70' years

[@manga12]

huh they had submerged arc back in 1948 I thought it was a newer process who know.

[@john90430]

Not so sure about that Atomic Hydrogen welding. I would be concerned with hydrogen embrittlement. Perhaps that's why it's no longer used?

[@fuckingpippaman]

Well i still confused about this: the steel mill where i live (cold rolling thin plates) anneals the steel rolls before rolling in a hydrogen atmosphere at around 600/700 degrees. I asked quite a few times why in hydrogen: argon way too costly and nitrogen leaves black marks like burns (?).

[@ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717]

I’m not a Welder. I don’t understand all this.

[@tdublove9558]

I'm not a welder either but gluing steel plates together is easy 😊