
5.5 COOLING SYSTEM
There are basically two type of cooling system available to welding machine, and the type of cooling system to be used are considered in the construction stage. The two types of cooling system are:
i) Air – type cooling system
ii) Oil – type cooling system
According to this project Air type cooling system is adopted and it has some advantages over the oil type.
The advantages of Air-type cooling system to oil type cooling system are:
-The design of the machine becomes simpler because no oil jackets are required in this system.
-No danger of coolant leakage
-Minimum maintenance problem because absence of cooling pipes
-Power to weight ratio is improved in this system
-The weight of air-cooled welding machine is less than that of oil-cooled welding machine
5.6. METHOD OF WLDING
Welding techniques has been developed and adopted in recent years and up to date to meet the modern industrial requirement. And also has been stated earlier that welding is the most common method of fabricating metal product, and as a result in order to achieve optimum welding. There are two basic method of fusion welding involved, which are:
i) Left ward welding
ii) Right ward welding
These two method of welding material depends on some factors such as the nature and thickness of the material types of joint and accessibility.
LEFT WARD WELDING
The choice of welding is sometimes usually applicable to metal plate with the thickness not more than 5mm and also for metal such as cast iron and some non-famous metal. As the name of the metal implies the welding operation is started from the right hand end of the plate proceeding to the left at slow and steady rate to achieve uniform weld. The electrode is usually held at 30o – 40o and for blow pipe in gas fusion welding is at 60o – 70o angle to be joined. Blow pipe is given side to side motion to ensure both the edges of the plate being joined melt at the same rate as the filler metal rod.