Welding Fabrication
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d. Some tools will be provided; please see updated list on the SkillsUSA website WELDING prior to the competition 2. Supplied by the contestant team: FABRICATION a. Hearing and/or ear protection b. Welding helmet with appropriate filter plate/lens and protective cover PURPOSE plate/lens in a flip or slide front. Auto To evaluate each contestant’s preparation for darkening shields are permissible employment and to recognize outstanding c. Spare spatter and filter lenses/plates for students for excellence and professionalism in arc welding helmet and oxyacetylene the field of welding fabrication. goggles d. Pocket calculator First, download and review the General e. Lead pencil and/or ballpoint pen Regulations at: http://updates.skillsusa.org/. f. Soap stone with holder g. Scribe with magnet h. Combination square set ELIGIBILITY (TEAM OF THREE) i. Fillet weld gauge Open to active SkillsUSA members enrolled in j. Center punch programs with welding as the occupational k. Chipping hammer with or without wire objective. This is a team event. Each team will brush be comprised of three student members from l. Stainless steel wire brush the same school and training program. m. All competitors must create a one-page résumé and submit a hard copy to the CLOTHING REQUIREMENT technical committee chair at Official SkillsUSA khaki work shirt (long orientation. Failure to do so will result sleeved) and pants (both the pants and shirt in a 10-point penalty. must be 100 percent cotton); black, brown or tan leather work shoes; and safety glasses with Note: Your contest may also require a hard side shields or goggles. (Prescription glasses copy of your résumé as part of the actual can be used only if they are equipped with side contest. Check the Contest Guidelines shields. If not, they must be covered with and/or the updates page on the SkillsUSA goggles.) website at http://updates.skillsusa.org/. These regulations refer to clothing items that Project drawings will be posted ahead of are pictured and described at: time for students, also at www.skillsusastore.org. If you have questions http://updates.skillsusa.org/. about clothing or other logo items, call 800- 401-1560 or 703-956-3723. SCOPE OF THE CONTEST The scope of the contest is defined by industry Note: Contestants must wear their official standards as identified by the following contest clothing to the contest orientation companies: American Welding Society Inc., meeting. Harris Products Group, Hobart Brothers Co., Lincoln Electric Co., Linweld Inc. and Miller EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS Electric Manufacturing Co. All drawings, 1. Supplied by the technical committee: welding symbols and welding terms conform to a. All necessary welding equipment and the latest edition of the American Welding materials Society (AWS) standards. b. For all drawings and procedure, please refer to: http://updates.skillsusa.org/ c. Power tools needed for the competition Knowledge Performance 7. Filler metals will be compatible with the The contest will include a written knowledge metals being welded and will be detailed exam that assesses the practical knowledge of on the contest procedure sheet. Instructions welding, including safety, measurement and to the contestants will define more blueprint reading. Other common fabrication specifically the filler metals that may be operations will also be assessed such as saw used. operation, drilling, grinding and material 8. Welds will be evaluated visually using a handling. rating system as established by the SkillsUSA technical committee. Skill Performance Nondestructive and/or destructive tests may The skill performance assessment includes the be used to complete the project evaluation. completion of a metal project and a 9. Final judging of the welded projects will be demonstration of the ability to weld carbon evaluated according to the difficulty of the steel, aluminum or stainless steel project in assigned task and by using the following various positions using a variety of filler metals. visual inspection criteria: dimensional Contestants will be involved in the completion accuracy, including distortion; conformity of a metal project that involves various to drawing requirements, including manufacturing methods. determination of whether all welds have been completed and whether the finished welds conform to the required size and Contest Guidelines contour; and visual examination of the 1. Contestants must correctly use the welding welds for cracks, undercut, overlap, crater equipment during the contest. The contest fill, spatter, arc strikes, porosity, convexity chairman and contest coordinator may stop and reinforcement. contestants at any section of the contest if they deem a contestant’s manner to be hazardous to either him- or herself or Standards and Competencies others. Such stoppage shall disqualify the participant for that section of the contest. If WF 1.0 — Identify safety standards on a test in the contestant is warned a second time, he accordance to ANSI Z49 or she will be disqualified as a contest 1.1 Demonstrate proper use and inspection participant. of equipment used for protection of 2. While the contest is in progress, there shall personnel be no communication between the 1.2 Model proper work area operation contestants or between other teams or 1.3 Demonstrate proper use and inspection anyone else, except as directed by a judge, of equipment used for ventilation contest coordinator or contest chair. It is 1.4 Demonstrate proper Hot Zone operation expected that team members will 1.5 Demonstrate proper procedures for communicate to each other. working in confined spaces 3. Time limits will be established on the 1.6 Understand precautionary labeling contest procedure sheets for all segments 1.7 Model proper use and inspection of of the test. equipment used for each required 4. Evaluation of the completed project will be welding or thermal cutting process judged visually. Nondestructive and/or destructive tests may be used to complete WF 2.0 — Demonstrate an understanding of practical the project evaluation. measurement 5. Welding and cutting operation instructions 2.1 Identify basic metal-working tools used will be specified in drawings and in measuring procedure sheets provided to the 2.2 Use visual measuring tools to accuracy of contestants. 1 ⁄64 of an inch 6. Welding equipment used in the contest 2.3 Employ the components of a may be obtained from a variety of combination square set manufacturers and may include 2.4 Use layout and marking tools as required transformers, rectifiers and/or inverters. Welding Fabrication, 2019 • 2 2.5 Determine wire feed speed as indicated 4.10 Weld a lap joint with a multiple-pass, on drawing fillet weld on carbon steel and stainless steel plate in the flat, horizontal, vertical WF 3.0 — Read and interpret blueprints up and down, and overhead positions 3.1 Apply information found in the 4.11 Weld a T-joint with a single-pass, fillet information block of the drawing weld on carbon steel and stainless steel 3.2 Read and understand three-dimensional sheet/plate in the flat, horizontal, vertical drawings up and down, and overhead positions 3.3 Identify the basic views used in 4.12 Weld a T-joint with a multiple-pass, fillet blueprints including assembly, detail and weld on carbon steel and stainless steel fit-up drawings plate in the flat, horizontal, vertical up 3.4 Identify common types of lines, and down, and overhead position abbreviations and symbols in accordance 4.13 Weld a butt joint with a single-pass, with national drawing standards (ANSI) square groove weld on carbon steel and 3.5 Identify basic welding symbols and stainless steel sheet/plate in the flat, components of a symbol (such as arrow, horizontal, vertical up and down, and reference line, tail, size or length) in overhead positions accordance with the current national 4.14 Weld a butt joint with a partial joint welding symbol standard, AWS A 2.4, penetration, single pass, double V-groove current edition weld on carbon steel and stainless steel plate in the flat, horizontal, vertical up WF 4.0 — Produce welds using a Shielded Metal Arc and down, and overhead positions Welding (SMAW) process to AWS QC10 standards 4.15 Weld a butt joint with a multiple-pass, V- groove weld on carbon steel and 4.1 Demonstrate safety procedures for stainless steel plate in the flat, horizontal, SMAW vertical up and down, and overhead 4.2 Demonstrate ability to correctly set up positions SMAW power sources and related 4.16 Weld a butt joint with complete joint welding equipment and do basic process penetration, multiple pass, double and equipment troubleshooting groove weld on carbon steel and 4.3 Correctly identify base metal prior to stainless steel plate in the flat, horizontal, welding vertical up and down, and overhead 4.4 Set up and shut down equipment for positions welding of carbon steel and/or stainless 4.17 Weld 2- to 8-inch diameter, schedules 40 steel to 80 carbon steel and stainless steel 4.5 Select correct type of filler metal size of pipe, single/multiple-pass V-groove weld electrode based on carbon steel and/or in the 2G, 5G and 6G positions 1 1 stainless steel plate ( ⁄4-inch to ⁄2-inch 4.18 Lay out, weld, cut and prepare coupons thickness) for evaluation 4.6 Prepare carbon steel and/or stainless 4.19 Test the prepared coupon steel for welding 4.7 Start, stop and restart stringer beads on WF 5.0 — Produce welds using a Gas Metal Arc Welding carbon steel and/or stainless steel in the (GMAW) process to AWS QC10 standards flat, horizontal, vertical