If you are in the welding business and working from engineering drawings, you need to be familiar with the American Welding Society Code books.

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Why? Because the AWS is the only game in town when it comes to welding codes and specifications. And if you complete a job and some third party welding inspector asks to review your welder's certs, you are kind of screwed. Its kind of hard to convince an inspector to overlook something like that. You are not going to find a welding…