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Learn to Weld with JFLF Welding Project Kits

The best way to improve your skills is to start building! Although, in the beginning, it may seem intimidating to learn how to weld, our welding project kits provide clear, step-by-step guides that provide everything you need to get started without having to invest a lot of time and money into procuring materials. Building from a template is an easy way to get practical hands-on training, gather experience and expand your welding education. Our welding project kits make learning an enjoyable and accessible process.

As your confidence grows, you’ll notice you’ll want to tackle bigger and more advanced welding projects. Whether you’re welding for fun or are thinking about welding as a career, we have inexpensive, high-quality welding project kits and design aids to support welding education and challenge all skill levels.


Welding Project Kits

We have a variety of welding project kits that are affordable, easy to follow and which make learning how to weld fun.




Design Aids That Make Learning How to Weld Easier

Our design aids and tools can be used to help you calculate settings for various welding projects of all skill levels and will help you get the job done by saving lots of time and guesswork in searching for answers. Our guides will help ensure you are completing your welding project in the most cost-effective, safest way possible.




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Weight of Weld Metal Tables Weight of Weld Metal Tables

8 ½” x 11” Paperback

These tables provided the weights of weld metal and allowable strengths for most joints including J-grooves and various bevels. The computer derived tables were developed by Omer W. Blodgett, design consultant for The Lincoln Electric Co. They provide valuable information to engineers, supervisors, designers, and others responsible for maximizing economy in terms of weld metal usage.

Price: $3.50
Tig Slide Rule Tig Slide Rule

TIG welding can be confusing. What amperage and polarity to select, what size and type tungsten do I use, what gas flow rate, size filler rod, shielding cup size, and gas mixture do I use? What changes should I make when I weld on aluminum, stainless, nickel, magnesium, copper, or titanium? All of these answers and more are quick and easy with the TIG Slide Rule. Size is 7" x 9-1/4"

Price: $6.00
Welding Preheat Calculator Welding Preheat Calculator

(for low hydrogen deposits) You must often preheat high carbon and alloy steels to weld them without cracking. Preheat slows the cooling rate to reduce hardening of the steel and to allow shrinkage stresses to be relieved. If you can determine the analysis of the steel, Lincoln s Preheat Calculator provides the answers quickly.

Price: $7.50
Stick Electrode Welding Guide Stick Electrode Welding Guide

This booklet is filled with fundamental welding information and also specific procedural data. Everyone from the production welder to the vocational instructor or student can profit from it. The welding guide even supplies such information as the sources for codes and specifications, welding symbols and how to estimate costs. 4 for $6.25

Price: $7.50
GMAW Welding Guide GMAW Welding Guide

A comprehensive, easy to understand guide to MIG welding for students, instructors and professional welders. Thirty-five pages of inert gas welding information, including safety. An excellent guide for shop manuals or notebooks.

ISBN: 0-937390-11-9
ISBN13: 978-0-937390-11-5

Price: $7.50
Arc Welded Projects - Vol I Arc Welded Projects - Vol I

1958 Collector's edition ARC WELDED PROJECTS The Foundation has had so many requests for the original 1958 Project Book that we pulled an original from the archives and reprinted it (we did add a new safety section). Project Book I is a 77 page book with 64 projects.

ISBN: 0-937390-05-4
ISBN13: 978-0-937390-05-4

Price: $7.50
Eagle Project Kit Eagle Project Kit

Eagle Project Kit.

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Order 1 to 4 Kits - $9.00 each
Order 5 to 9 Kits - $6.50 each
Order 10 and Up - $6.00 each

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**Print Instruction Sheet**


Disclaimer: Completed Project Not Included

Price: $9.00
Airplane Project Kit Airplane Project Kit

Project Kit.

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Order 1 to 4 Kits - $9.00 each
Order 5 to 9 Kits - $6.50 each
Order 10 and Up - $6.00 each
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**Print Instruction Sheet**

Disclaimer: Completed Project Not Included

Price: $9.00
Metal Project Kit Metal Project Kit

Metal Project Kit.

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Order 1 to 4 Kits - $9.00 each
Order 5 to 9 Kits - $6.50 each
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Disclaimer: Completed Project Not Incuded

Price: $9.00
Tractor Project Kit Tractor Project Kit

Tractor Project Kit.

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Order 5 to 9 Kits - $6.50 each
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Disclaimer: Completed Project Not Included

Price: $9.00
Arc Welded Projects - Vol II Arc Welded Projects - Vol II

A collection of entries submitted to the Foundation’s High School Award Program. This book is divided into 4 sections with projects describing procedures and a bill of material for each. The sections are: Agricultural, 24 projects; Home and Recreational, 28 projects; Shop Tools, 44 projects; and Trailers, 16 projects. Typical projects are: hydraulic wood splitter, scraper grader, wood stove, pontoon boat, engine hoist, band saw, pipe bending machine, 2 horse trailer, and flatbed trailer. Written in a simple and easy to understand style. 112 projects covering 272 pages.

ISBN: 0-937390-04-6
ISBN13: 978-0-937390-04-7

Price: $15.00
Arc Welded Projects - Vol III Arc Welded Projects - Vol III

An 8-1/2" x 11" paperback book of 170 pages of projects submitted in various Award Programs sponsored by The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation. This publication consists of three sections: Section A – 22 projects relating to Agricultural Equipment; Section B – describes many interesting Home & Recreational projects; Section C – covers Shop Tools and Equipment. The 20 entries described range from a tire beadbreaker to the design and fabrication of a portable welding rig.

ISBN: 0-937390-03-8
ISBN13: 978-0-937390-03-0

Price: $15.00
Arc Welded Projects - Vol IV Arc Welded Projects - Vol IV

The projects described in this 200 page book represent the range of entries submitted in the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation Award Programs both as to the type and size of the project, and the nature of the descriptive information included. The topics are as follows: * Agriculture (16 Projects) * Trailers (11 Projects) * Shop Projects (16 Projects) * Home & Recreation (14 Projects) * Miscellaneous (5 Projects)

ISBN: 0-937390-01-1
ISBN13: 978-0-937390-01-6

Price: $15.00
Arc Welded Projects - Vol V Arc Welded Projects - Vol V

The Project Book V is the Foundation's best project book to date with improved artwork and photographs. It is a compilation of some of the best student projects over the past four years as the projects keep getting better and better. Project Book V is 217 pages long with 55 projects. The topics are a follows: • Trailers (10 Projects) • Home & Recreation (14 Projects) • Shop Projects (11 Projects) • Agriculture (10 Projects) • Rainy Day Projects (10Projects)

ISBN: 0-937390-02-X
ISBN13: 978-0-937390-02-3

Price: $15.00
Design of Weldments Design of Weldments

By Omer W. Blodgett, design consultant This reference handbook describes in detail design techniques for creating machine designs in arc welded steel. Much of this material has had no previous publication. Theoretical analysis, problem-solution examples and case history studies explain how to design machine components for manufacturing economies and improvement of product performance through efficient use of steel’s excellent physical properties. Since its publication, this book has become a standard reference manual for design problems in welded metal products. Design of Weldments includes 8 sections dealing with ‘Weldesign,’ a system that reduces weight and cost and improves production. 464 pages, 8 ½” x 11”, 923 illustrations, nomographs, charts.

ISBN: 0-937390-13-5
ISBN13: 978-0-937390-13-9

Price: $21.00