RIVETLESS STEEL BUILDING
Electrically welded steel structures are beginning to become familiar in Great Britain, which was the first country to apply this method of jointing in place of riveting. The latest building to bo erected on the system is the new factoryof an electric welding company in Scotland. For the most part the general design of the columns and the roof is on'standard lines, but no rivets are used. Simple straightforward joints are made by arc welding, the electrodes which produce the arc (whose heat affects the weld) being coated with a special conducting flux, which itself forms an are, nnd, in melting, covers Hie molten steel, and prevents it oxidising. The work is done with great rapidity and saves a material amount, of steel.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 8
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126RIVETLESS STEEL BUILDING Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 8
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