2007 PROFESSIONAL WELDERS COMPETITION
Think You're A Good
Enough Welder To Win $2,500?
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Give
it a try
You could win the grand
prize at the Professional Welders
Competition, sponsored by the American Welding Society. The competition
will take place November 12-13, 2007, during the
FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show in Chicago, Illinois.
In addition to the $2,500 grand prize, a $1,000 second prize and a $500
third prize will be awarded, and the top 12 competitors will win an AWS
duffel bag. Each participant will receive an AWS Professional Welders
Competition T-shirt.
Who
should compete?
You should
compete if you’re proficient in using SMAW on steel. Welders in the
construction, pipeline, and manufacturing industries and practitioners
of skilled trades in the construction or heavy-equipment industries –
union and non-union alike – are welcome. To compete, you must be at
least 19 years old, sign a form stating that you are a
professional welder, and pay the $10 entry fee.
You may bring your own helmet, protective clothing, earplugs, etc., or
use those provided at the competition site.
Where and
when
The Professional Welders Competition will take place on the show
floor (North Building) at the FABTECH International & AWS Welding
Show in McCormick
Place North, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois. To register
for
the show, please visit www.aws.org/show.
The welding
procedure
Professional welders will compete on the show floor for a grand prize
of $2,500 by welding an angle clip to a base plate. The timed
welding procedure involves welding a 3 x 3 x 3/8-inch angle to a
1/4-inch horizontal plate using shielded metal arc welding (SMAW). Each
participant will set his/her own current and voltage prior to welding
and must clean the weldment following welding to prepare for the
inspection process. Competitors will have five minutes to create a
single-pass 5/16-inch fillet weld using 5/32-inch E7018 electrode on
low-carbon steel. Each competitor will be allowed one attempt at
creating the weldment; no retests are allowed. The contest will be
judged by a team of AWS Certified Welding Inspectors using the criteria
in AWS D1.1, Structural Welding Code–Steel, and verified using
automated inspection equipment.
The
judges
A team of AWS
Certified Welding Inspectors will judge the competition using the
criteria for size and appearance of the fillet weld as stated in AWS
D1.1/D1.1M, Structural Welding Code—Steel. The judges'
results will be verified using automated inspection equipment.
Competition
hours
Monday, November 12
Tuesday, November 13
9:30 AM-12:30 PM
and 1:30 PM-4:30 PM
Awards
ceremony
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at 10 AM on
Wednesday, November 14. (Winners need not be
present at the awards ceremony.)
To
enter the competition
Registration will
take place at
the Professional Welders Competition booth on the show floor in the
North Building between 12:30 and 4:30 PM on Sunday, November 11, or
Monday and Tuesday, November 12-13, during the competition.
