Welding Lab

On Friday, everyone spent the day at the Mesabi Range Eveleth campus. We were split up into two groups, the first group included the members of the raft cart group, the second included members of the sauna group and Blandin group. As a member of the first group, we spent the first hour having the welding instructor Tom Baldwin show us how to wire feed weld aluminum alloy 6061. After showing us both push and pull techniques each member made quite a few practice beads. After each member got the basics down, we began fabricating the cart. Within a 4 hour period, the cart went from a stack of drawings and a pile of tubing and parts, to an almost fully completed product that requires only an couple additions by this Friday. During the raft cart fabrication time, the other group of students learned how to wire feed weld steel. This Friday, the groups will switch so all students will learn the same techniques.