Wikipedia:Peer review/Gas metal arc welding/archive1

Gas metal arc welding
I'm planning to nominate this for FA status in a few weeks, but wanted to run it through peer review to see if anyone has some suggestions first. --Spangineer (háblame)  16:47, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)


 * I thought the article was extremely good overall but I have one single nitpick: A related process, flux cored arc welding, employs an hollow electrode wire that is filled with flux on the inside, eliminating the need for shielding gas. This sentence might lead someone to believe that flux-core welding is used only for the purpose of eliminating the need for a shielding gas. However, flux-core encompasses both self-shield and dual-shield processes. The self-shield does not require a shielding gas while the dual-shield uses a flux and gas together resulting in strong heat input to the weld. Otherwise I did not find a problem with the article. Keep up the good work =) Triddle 18:20, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the comments. I said "eliminating the need" because in order to do flux-cored, you don't need shielding gas.  You can do self-shielded.  But I see your point; it's not particularly clear.  Plus, FCAW has other advantages and disadvantages aside from the whole shielding gas thing.  I think the lead needs a mention of FCAW, since the two are so related, so I'll play around with the wording and see what I can come up with. --Spangineer  (háblame)  18:41, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)


 * Its pretty good, I don't suppose you could add some more images? I would also like to see some circuit diagrams. Some minor niggles with the units: 1) Get rid of those full-stops after units. 2) use a non breaking space (&.n.b.s.p.;) between a number and its unit. Its part of the WP:MoS. I've done one for you. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  18:34, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)


 * I was under the impression that english units get periods and metric units don't, but eh, whatever WP:MoS says :). The images thing is in progress... I'm planning to (attempt to) draw up a detailed "point of weld" diagram similar to the one found at the top of this page, and User:TTLightningRod is working on getting a good picture of someone actually doing GMAW.  I might also send out an email to a major US welding company to see if they'd like to GFDL any images, but I'm not optimistic.  If worst comes to worst we can add the lead image from welding, which is a picture of GMAW but isn't clear at all, since the arc flash blocks the view of the welding gun.  Oh, and what do you mean by circuit diagrams? Do you mean a overall view of the system, with how the power supply and shielding gas tanks connect to the welding gun, or a close-up image like the one at that external website I mentioned?  Thanks for the comments. --Spangineer  (háblame)  18:55, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * I know, getting images are a pain. :| Hope you get lucky. Yeah, a ckt diagram on something on the overall system. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  07:57, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)