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Show Lcc?J Dealer Describes Ford Electric Welding- Electric resistance welding, a nc.v, arc in thii ULe of which the Ford ' .victor Company stands foremost in ; the automotive industry, has maae it poss'')!o to build the Ford car al most wholly of steel, Osmond Crow-. Crow-. Jicr, of the North Sanpete Motor, local ford dealer, said today. As a result, he said, the car is lighter, yet stronger and safer. ; "Wcldine," said Mr. Crowther, "ia ages old. The blacksmith first practiced it when in his charcoal forgo, with bellows gjing, he heat-p:d heat-p:d two pieces of steel to a temperature tempera-ture he deemed proper, and theii welded them into one piece under his hammer blows on the anvil. "Today science, with the aid of electricity, has made welding an important element in manufacture of steel parts. It has eliminated the guesswork of even the most practiced blacksmith and in a frao-j frao-j Lion of the time welds two pieces j of steel into one with certain knov-I knov-I ledge cf the strength of the welded -piece. This is accomplished by ! rhe same principal used by the blacksmith heat pius pressure." The two pieces to be welded are clamped in copper jaws, Mr. Crow-i Crow-i i.her explained. A current of elec-j elec-j triclty is conducted through tho i copper jaws into the pieces, generating generat-ing a high het at the point where I UK- two pieces make contact with i each other, whi-,h brings the sur-jitiindmg sur-jitiindmg metal to the fusing point. I Then comes the application of pressure, pres-sure, which completes the weld, and wherere two pieces were before, there is now one. Nowhere has the art of electric welding been more extensively applied ap-plied than in the great Ford plants, the local dealer said. In many cases machines have been designed that are radical departures from any in e::ist3nce. Tools and fixtures fix-tures hitherto unheard of have been developed, built and put to use. ''Electric welding," Mr. Crowther said, "results in many benefits to the car owner. It permits the inanulacture of strong single units, I heretofore made up of several parts j belted or rivited together. These I units are stronger, more durable and safer because they are one J piece of definitely known quality. They are lighter in weight because overlapping material has been eliminated, elim-inated, and this reduction in weight is rellected in increased power thro reducing car-weight haul on the engine. Then there is also the economy in manufacture through which the owner Denefits in low price." |
