Sentences with word «oxyacetylene»

Oxyacetylene torches also require flux materials which are added during welding to prevent the metal oxidising.

Lassaw joined the Kootz Gallery's stable of artists, and the first sale of his sculptures in 1950 enabled him to buy equipment for oxyacetylene welding, which he began to use for sculpture in 1951.

In the early 1950s, Cousins learned oxyacetylene welding from sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri, and his art developed from figurative forms in terracotta and wood, to works that incorporated more and more metal, and finally, to abstractions of welded steel.

Caro utilized oxyacetylene welding equipment and scrap metal from London dockyards and began to experiment with cutting, welding, and bolting together pre-fabricated steel girders, meshes and sheet metal.

If instead of spending forty hours a week doing document review, you spent forty hours marketing your practice, networking, volunteering or applying for jobs, your long term prospects as an attorney will be much brighter... at least as bright as the flame on a welder's oxyacetylene blowtorch.

Traditional welding methods need expensive equipment, such as metal inert gas (MIG) welders or oxyacetylene torches to melt the alloys.

Welders If it can be welded, VLA welders can weld it, using Metal Inert Gas (MIG), Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG), shielded arc, and oxyacetylene welding techniques as well as brazing and soldering.

Air is 21 percent oxygen; combine pure oxygen with acetylene, a chemical relative of methane, and you get an oxyacetylene welding torch that burns at over 5,500 degrees Fahrenheit — the hottest fire you are likely to encounter.

Both artists famously explored the abstract potential of industrial tools and materials — Caro's oxyacetylene welding equipment; Olitski's spray guns.

David Smith (in several galleries) In 1934, David Smith (Decatur, Indiana, 1906 - Vermont, 1965) began to weld metal sculptures using an oxyacetylene torch; these were probably the first welded - metal sculptures made in the United Estates.

At this time, she developed her signature welding technique using wire and pieces of canvas shaded with soot applied with an oxyacetylene torch, in a series she referred to as «worldscapes.»

The oxyacetylene torch — invented during the Second World War — allowed Lipton to rework the surfaces of metal sculptures, thus eliminating some of the risks involved with producing large - scale finished works.

Working with a wire armature and an oxyacetylene torch to make sculpture that seemed to accumulate as a series of molten marks and linear strands, Mr. Lassaw took the idea of drawing in space quite literally.

Smith would use an oxyacetylene torch to weld metal heads onto his sculptures and this is the first recorded time that a person welded metal sculptures in the United States.

In 1932 he rented a studio space in Brooklyn and bought welding equipment, and started using an oxyacetylene torch to weld his works.

Experience in all welding processes; SMAW, GMAW, and FCAW welding techniques, brazing and oxyacetylene for welding and cutting of materials, Plasma Cutting and ARC air procedures.

Oxyacetylene torch.

Cuts were done only with an oxyacetylene torch.