Welding Aluminum Fumes. Aluminum weldments can result in electrical shock just like steel weldments but for different reasons. Breathing Argon While Welding.
Fumes are formed when hot metal vapors cool and condense into very small particles that stay suspended in the vapor. OSHA received two comments pertaining to aluminum welding fumes. L3-1330 sought clarification as to whether the term aluminum welding fumes refers to aluminum fumes or to the gases and fumes usually associated with aluminum welding such as ozone nitrous gases carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.
It is not as apparent when performing gas tungsten arc welding GTAW on aluminum.
Ad Overhead Ambient or Portable. Long- term occupational exposure to the above factors leads to changes in lungs. Zinc the coating used in galvanized metal is often associated with. This happens because in GMAW we are transferring metal across the arc.