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The Easiest Way to Learn Welding and Get Ready for Your Cert Test Explained with Pictures

Stick, MIG, flux core and TIG, polarity, lens shades, joints and positions, weld symbols, defects, the bend test: there is a lot to take in before you lay a good bead and pass a test plate. Here every topic fits on one page, with a drawing that does the explaining. 66 illustrated pages, from what welding is to the practice questions.

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One topic per page

look at the drawing first, then read the boxes

66 illustrated pages

8 parts, from the welding circuit to test day

Stick, MIG, flux core and TIG

plus safety, joints, symbols, defects and certification

This Is What the Pages You Will Study Look Like

One topic per page, a drawing that carries it and short boxes with what to remember under the hood. Take a look inside:

It Is Not That You Can't Learn to Weld. It Is That Nobody Showed You What the Numbers Mean.

You open a box of rods: E7018. The wire spool says ER70S-6. The print has a little triangle under a line, and the test sheet says 3G...

...and nobody ever explained what any of it means.

Reading a stick electrode: E7018 broken into E, 70, 1 and 8, with a table of common rods

Here, a rod classification fits on one page: E is the electrode, 70 is the minimum tensile strength of the weld metal (70,000 psi), 1 means all positions, and the last digit, read with the one before it, tells you the coating and the current it runs on.

Once you can read the numbers, the box, the spool and the print start making sense.

First you understand what you are looking at. Then the welding makes sense.

The Difference Is Visual

Stop memorizing letters and numbers you cannot picture:

THIS
  • Pages of dense text
  • No drawing of the joint, the torch or the position
  • On the test, 3G and 3F blur together
A list of welding codes and numbers to memorize
VS. THIS
  • Every topic drawn
  • One topic per page, with the key rule in the box
  • You remember it because you saw it
Welding positions drawn on one page: 1G to 4G for grooves, 1F to 4F for fillets, and 1G, 2G, 5G and 6G pipe
Contents

Take a look at the 8 parts and 51 topics

The basics, safety, stick, MIG and flux core, TIG, joints and symbols, defects and inspection, certification, then the review and practice: 66 pages, all illustrated

  • What welding is
  • The main processes
  • The welding circuit
  • Power sources
  • Polarity: DCEP, DCEN and AC
  • Metals you will weld
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Choosing a lens shade
  • Arc rays: eyes and skin
  • Welding fumes
  • Fire and hot work
  • Electric shock
  • Gas cylinders
  • The stick setup
  • Reading a stick electrode
  • Keeping low-hydrogen rods dry
  • Striking the arc
  • CLAMS: five things to control
  • Slag, restarts and craters
  • How MIG works
  • The machine, part by part
  • Shielding gas
  • Transfer modes
  • Voltage, wire speed, stickout
  • Push or drag
  • Flux-cored wire
  • MIG troubleshooting
  • How TIG works
  • The TIG torch
  • Tungsten electrodes
  • DCEN or AC
  • Two hands and a pedal
  • Stainless steel and back purging
  • The five basic joints
  • Groove preparations
  • Fillet welds
  • Welding positions
  • Root, fill and cap
  • Shrinkage and distortion
  • Reading weld symbols
  • Porosity
  • Cracks
  • Incomplete fusion and penetration
  • Undercut, overlap and profile
  • Slag and tungsten inclusions
  • Nondestructive testing
  • The bend test
  • How welder certification works
  • WPS and PQR
  • The test plate
  • Test day
  • Final review: numbers to know — p. 62
  • Glossary — p. 63
  • Practice set 1 — p. 64
  • Practice set 2 — p. 65
  • Answers and explanations — p. 66

What If Every Topic Fit on a Single Page?

Picture this:

Instead of burning through a box of rods without knowing what to change when the bead looks wrong...

...you see the five things to control, in order: Current, Length, Angle, Manipulation, Speed. Too fast gives a narrow, tall bead; too slow, a wide bead and a puddle that rolls over.

CLAMS drawn on one page: current and length, angle, manipulation and speed, with what each one does to the bead

And polarity, lens shades, weld symbols and the test plate become pictures you can see in your head under the hood. You stop guessing and start understanding.

That is exactly what Welding Made Visual does.

It is not “just another PDF”. It is 8 parts and 51 illustrated topics, with 20 original practice questions and explained answers, plus a final review of the numbers to know and a glossary.

Because what your brain sees organized, it remembers.

Here Is What You Get with Welding Made Visual:

Welding Made Visual: the book and sample pages
I
pp. 3–9

The Basics

What welding is, the four main arc processes, the welding circuit, transformer and inverter machines, CC and CV, duty cycle, polarity (DCEP, DCEN and AC) and the metals you will weld.

II
pp. 10–17

Safety

Helmet, gloves, jacket, boots and glasses, the OSHA lens shade table, arc rays, fumes and extraction, fire watch and hot work, electric shock and gas cylinders.

III
pp. 18–24

Stick Welding (SMAW)

The stick setup, how to read E6010, E6011, E6013, E7018 and E7024, keeping low-hydrogen rods dry, striking the arc, CLAMS, and slag, restarts and craters.

IV
pp. 25–33

MIG and Flux Core

How MIG works, the machine part by part, shielding gas, transfer modes, voltage, wire speed and stickout, push or drag, flux-cored wire and MIG troubleshooting.

V
pp. 34–40

TIG Welding (GTAW)

How TIG works, the torch, tungsten electrodes and their colors, DCEN for steel and AC for aluminum, torch, rod and pedal together, and stainless steel with back purging.

VI
pp. 41–48

Joints, Positions, Symbols

The five basic joints, groove preparations, fillet welds with leg and throat, the positions from 1G to 6G, root, fill and cap, distortion and how to read weld symbols.

VII
pp. 49–56

Defects and Inspection

Porosity, cracks, incomplete fusion and penetration, undercut and overlap, slag and tungsten inclusions, visual, dye penetrant, magnetic particle, ultrasonic and radiography, and the bend test.

VIII
pp. 57–61

Getting Certified

How welder certification works and the code behind it, WPS and PQR, the test plate and what to do on test day.

At the end: a one-page review of the numbers to know, a glossary, two practice sets of 10 questions and the answers explained.

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Welding Symbols Made Visual

BONUS 1: “Welding Symbols Made Visual”

Free with the book

How to read the welding symbols on a fabrication blueprint: the arrow, the reference line, the weld symbols and the dimensions, with examples to read and the answers, so you know exactly which weld the print calls for.

It comes with the book.

Welding Practice Test

BONUS 2: “Welding Practice Test”

Free with the book

Original practice questions on processes, filler metals, shielding gases, joints and positions, symbols, defects, inspection and safety, with every answer explained, so you know why it is right and what to review when you miss one.

It comes with the book.

Welding Made Visual with the two free books

Welding Made Visual + 2 Free Books

  • Welding Made Visual: 66 illustrated pages
  • Bonus 1: Welding Symbols Made VisualFree
  • Bonus 2: Welding Practice TestFree
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Is This Book for You?

Welding student in a school welding shop studying an illustrated book at the workbench

You are in welding school

Stick, MIG, flux core and TIG one page at a time, with the machine, the rod, the gas and the polarity explained in drawings.

Welder in a test booth next to a plate clamped in the vertical position, reading an illustrated book

Your cert test is coming up

Positions from 1G to 6G, WPS and PQR, the test plate, the bend test and test day, plus practice questions with the answers explained.

Hobbyist in a home garage with a small MIG welder, reading an illustrated book on a stool

You weld at home, or want to start

What your machine does, how shielding gas and flux-cored wire work, how to stay safe and why a bead fails, drawn clearly.

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Frequently Asked Questions

One Last Thing Before You Decide...

You do not have to burn through another box of rods guessing what went wrong.

You do not have to stare at a weld symbol wondering which side the weld goes on.

And you definitely do not have to walk into your test without having seen what the inspector looks for.

There is an easier way. And it is one click away.

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