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9.8 AMORTIZATION OF EQUIPMENT COSTS

Calculations show that you can save $7.00 per pound of deposited weld metal by switching
Lesson 2
Common Electric from E7018 electrodes and the SMAW process to an ER70S0-3 solid wire using the GMAW
Arc Welding process. However, the cost of the necessary equipment (power source, wire feeder and gun)
Processes
is $2,800. How long will it take to amortize or regain the cost of the equipment knowing that
the deposition rate of the ER70S-3 is 7.4 lbs/hr and the operating factor of the GMAW process Go To Test
Lesson 3 is 50%? The formula is:
Covered Electrodes
for Welding Print
Mild Steels Equipment Cost
$ Savings/Lb
÷ (Deposition Rate x Operating Factor) = Man Hrs

Lesson 4 Glossary
Covered Electrodes 2,800
for Welding Low Substituting the values in the formula: 7.00 ÷ (7.4 x .50) = Man Hrs
Alloy Steels

400 ÷ 3.7 = Man Hrs

Lesson 5
Welding Filler Metals
for Stainless Steels If we divide 108 into eight hour days (108 ÷ 8 = 13.5) the deposited weld metal savings of one
man working an eight hour day for 13-1/2 days will pay for the cost of the equipment.
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Lesson 9
Estimating &
Comparing Weld
Metal Costs

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Reliability of Welding
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