SMAW Safety
Electrodes
SMAW Process
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100

The name of the item used to prevent electric shock.

What is a ground clamp?

100

The amount of tensile strength (including units) for a 7024 electrode.

What is 70,000 psi (or 70 ksi)?

100

The term used to describe the period of time you can operate a machine without stopping.

What is a duty cycle?

100

The term for the protective coating outside of the weld that makes all the impurities rise to the surface.

What is slag?

200

The shade of lens required to weld SMAW in our shop.

What is 10-12?

200
What the first 2 numbers of a welding rod tell you.

What is tensile strength?

200

Two advantages of SMAW over MIG.

Answers may vary, but could include:

* SMAW doesn't require a shielding gas

* SMAW can be used on a variety of metal types

etc.

200

What SMAW stands for.

What is Shielded Metal Arc Welding?
300

Two safety features you MUST look for when walking up to your station to weld.

What is a ground clamp and no water spills?


(May also say no frayed wires on machine, etc.)

300

What the fourth number of an electrode tells you.

What is specific to the coating of the electrode?

300

The 2 most common methods for striking an arc.

What are tapping and scratching?

300
What creates the shield for the weld in SMAW.

What is the flux coating?

400

Four PPE items required for SMAW.

What are long-sleeve cotton shirt, jeans, boots/close-toed shoes, safety glasses, leather gauntlet-styled gloves, shade 10-12 welding helmet?


(any 4 of the above)

400

The definition for tensile strength.

What is the amount of force required to break a weld?

400

The safest way to tack welds.

What is using pliers and keeping your face shield down?

400

The difference between AC and DC.

What is in DC electricity flows in one direction but in AC electricity switches directions periodically based on the energy flow?

500

What to do if needing to weld on a container that previously had a flammable material in it.

What is don't weld on it?

500

The number of positions a 6013 rod can be welded in.

What is four/all?

500
What it means to tack a weld.

What is make two little beads on either side of your metal to prevent it from moving?

500

Your own words for what happens during the SMAW process.

What is a welding process that uses the flux coating of an electrode to create a shield to protect a weld?

Airgas definition: 

  • "The process uses shielding from the decomposition of the electrode covering, without the application of pressure, and with filler metal from the electrode"


Ms. Meyer definition:

  • "SMAW is an arc welding process with an arc between a covered electrode and the weld pool"