How Arc Welding Works

Basic 1.5 min talk on how it works, taken from a larger film which was used to educate GE employees on how to weld correctly. Irving Langmuir from General Electric invented atomic hydrogen welding. the video has diagrams and animation to help show the basics on how metals are annealed

[MrHepj]

Why don't we have more instructional videos like this now a days? Informative and to the point. Perfection!

[serlokbrixe]

The entire first semester of welding class... Under two minutes. Definitely my favorite class of the day!

[daoonh]

It took an old 1950s tutorial to finally give me the basic of what the process of creating a welding bead looks like.

[quakerzero]

Back when I was learning welding in school maybe 9 or 10 years ago, our teacher showed us this video saying he never saw a better explanation video for stick welding. One of the first thing he showed us.

[tic]

There is something very charming about that animation. Why can't we go back to that.

[quahntasy]

This is the kind of video I would like to make, short and informational. No crap. Feynman voice.

[damadusha_SolarGuy]

The best explanation of Arc welding I've seen..

[zainhussein]

Every time I watch a video (especially a tutorial one or a creative one) it makes me wonder what sort of minds would dislike them. I still haven’t figured out.

Thanks for the upload

[MissShaftable]

Just that animation alone learnt me something.

[tk]

Wow... who knew a 50 year old video would give the best explanation of welding I have ever seen. And forget bout 3d Illustration, I prefer my welding animations done by Disney. :)

That was awesome.

[dntreply]

I watched 5 others how to videos and this was the 6th and by far the easiest and straight forward explanation of welding and in under 2min and its a bloody 60yr old video.

[dtmsolid]

FINALLY I NEEDED THIS!!! Everyone with those fancy cameras that barely show much. An animated drawing is perfect.

[rodrigezgozalo]

Just tried Arc Welding...the strking of the stick is like the mother of all matches lighting up with a blinding glow and then streaming white hot molten metal into your gap as you gently draw the stylus of the beast along the path, turning it into a river of flowing steel.Pull back too far and the beast will vanish leaving only darkness and silence, until you strike again and unleash the power!ARC welding connects man to the earths awsome force like no other. 

[Bigblackee]

Most informative video on what an Arc is. Classic old school never fails. ❤

[hassanfrancis]

Great demo ! I think the voice is that narrator of the WW2 documentaries. It is a meticulous explanation of every step of the process.

[AndrewFosterSheff]

For the FIRST time I finally get to see a GOOD example of how the welder strikes an arc!!!
Maybe next time I try I'll be more successful at it not sticking constantly!
I only had to go back 70 years!!!

[westkilly]

and they wonder why or generation is so dumb they don't make videos like this no more. every educational video that explains somethinv was made in the 60s and are hard to find

[sovereign]

It's concise and to the point.

If you wanted to learn that in a school, it'd take weeks to get that bit of knowledge that took 1:51.

The information is still relevant to stick welding. Keep posting!

[pacific]

Why is it that these old 50s videos are the best at explaining things?

[leesuschrist]

How is it that these old classroom videos are more useful than any modern day video demonstration I've been able to find on the internet? The animations make things so much easier to understand and you don't have to listen to some guy rambling in his garage with his granddaddy's Lincoln buzzbox running in the background.