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hunt.rowan•1d ago

Rant: my old tube roller saved the day when the hydraulic one quit on a 5/8" plate job in Gary

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jesse84•2d ago

Can we settle this: do you torque your flange bolts in a star pattern or work around the circle?

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rowank69•7d ago

Can we talk about how a 3/8 inch plug weld took me 6 hours on a mud drum in Gary, Indiana?

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claire_ramirez22•8d ago

Turned down a 6 month shutdown gig in Houston for a local 4 month job, and the local one folded in week 3

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thead44•9d ago

Our shop switched from stick to wire on the tube welds and cut rework from 22% to 4% in 3 months

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kim.wren•10d ago

Wrote off wire brushing the tube ends for 3 years, then a guy in Gary showed me his boiler logs

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parker_bell•10d ago

Why does nobody bring up the torch tip size when teaching a new guy to cut plate

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casey535•10d ago

A 30 year guy on my crew asked why I still roll tubes by hand, so I tried his way for 2 weeks

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parker_bell•10d ago

I swore by my air hammer for ten years until I watched a guy in Gary, Indiana knock out a stubborn tube sheet with a dead blow and a cold chisel

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jesseb20•11d ago

A 30 year man from Local 146 in Edmonton told me to preheat my rod oven overnight, and my 6010 beads came out cleaner on the first pass

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the_brian•12d ago

Why a 30 year welder in Gary told me to stop stacking dimes on my root pass

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casey535•13d ago

Spent 4 hours chasing a leak on a boiler only to find a cracked gauge glass gasket I installed backwards

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ivan_hayes29•13d ago

Saw a shop in Gary, Indiana still rolling tubes by hand, no machine in sight

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the_sarah•14d ago

TIL you can roll a boiler tube with a torque wrench instead of feeling it by hand, and I wish the old guys had shown me this 15 years ago

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torres.drew•18d ago

Finally passed my UA 41 weld test on the third try, and the fix was honestly embarrassing

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