WOMEN WELDERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22215, 7 March 1942, Page 6

WOMEN WELDERS

HELPED BY NEW PROCESS LONDON, January 1. Managers of Britain's war factories are discovering that the women now coming into their works from shops, offices, the professions and private life, have very definite likes and dislikes about the kind of work they wish to do. Some take to turning wheels, others prefer to use hand-tools; some enjoy work calling for concentration, others would sooner have simple repetition work. Welding is a job that many women are turning to now, but even here there are two distinct camps, those who like the fireworks of electric arc welding and those who prefer fusion welding: It is often very difficult to get women to transfer from one method to the other. But in one important British factory fusion welding has been made much simpler and more effective by a new process which eliminates the useful defects. Its main feature is the application of a control!: t temperature applied before and during either a manual or a machine weld. Other features prevent the formation of gas crevices or pockets. Formerly in spite of X-ray examination, weaknesses were liable to occur, and could be finally detected only in mechanical tests.