This is a plug, or Rosette weld. This month's column covers many other commonly used weld types. Q.I've been in this business for many years, and there doesn't seem to be much agreement about the ...

Remember the 80’s movie, Flashdance? The female lead, Jennifer Beals, was a welder by day in a Pittsburgh steel mill and for many people that was their first glimpse of what a welder did for a living.