00 Blueprint Reading for Welders
A print is not a picture. It is somebody telling you exactly what to build.
Twenty five pages, built around three complete shop drawings decoded line by line. Learned off the print rather than off a chart.
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02 Contents
Three prints. Every callout on them.
Most books give you a chart of symbols to memorise, and then the first real print you meet has a broken arrow and a section view and none of it looks like the chart. This does it the other way round.
25 pages · 3 full drawings · 5 parts · PDF
A legend, five line types, and the fixed grammar of the welding symbol.
- Every weld type and supplementary symbol, on one sheet
- Object, hidden, centre, phantom and cutting plane lines
- The six step order to read any print in
- Arrow side against other side, and intermittent pitch
A column base assembly, with a field weld hiding in plain sight.
- A full sheet: title block, notes, revisions, bill of materials
- Front elevation and top view, with a break line explained
- Three callouts read out loud, including a staggered intermittent
- The trap on the sheet, and what it costs to miss it
A plate splice with a complete joint penetration groove and a backing bar.
- Why the section view is the only truth about the joint
- No size to the left, plus CJP in the tail
- Groove angle, root opening and backing, each in its own place
- A flush contour bar and the letter that says how
A lifting lug. Three of the most misread callouts in the trade on one sheet.
- The broken arrow, and which member actually gets beveled
- Plug welds: diameter, depth, count and pitch
- Other side only, and the finger on the arrowhead that prevents it
- The note nowhere near a weld symbol that fails the job
Where the numbers live, the abbreviations, and a check to run before you strike.
- Fillet against groove, position by position
- The abbreviations you will actually meet
- A one minute check on every new print
- Eight self check questions off the three prints, with answers
Thirty days. No hoops.
Read the whole thing. If it does not tell you something you did not already know, reply to the receipt inside thirty days and we refund you in full. You keep the file. We would rather have the feedback than the money.
03 The rest of the shelf
The other three, and the set.
Prints are one part of the job. These are the rest of the shelf.
- 01 TIG Field Guide Heat, arc length, angle, gas and cleanliness.
- 02 MIG Field Guide Settings, the four things your hands control, and how to see inside your own weld.
- 03 The Fabricator Layout, tolerance, brake math, distortion and inspection.
- 04 All four, as a set The whole shelf. Sixty dollars bought singly.
03 Straight answers
Questions we get asked.
They are teaching examples, drawn to look and behave like real shop drawings, and every symbol on them follows AWS A2.4. They are not issued for fabrication and the guide says so on the first page. Build to the print you were given.
The three prints are the point. Most people who say they read prints fine have never been asked to explain a broken arrow, a section view or a staggered intermittent weld out loud. The self check at the back settles it in about ten minutes.
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Reply to the receipt within thirty days and we refund you. You keep the file. We have no interest in money from somebody who did not get anything out of it.
