Rant: the shipyard in Norfolk told me my tank welds looked fine, I still cut them out

Margaret Nelson · 2026-09-25T04:15:04.000698+00:00

Everyone on that crew said visually clean is good enough, but I found porosity under the cap on two of the eight passes when I ran a quick grind test. I'd rather eat the rework time than sign off on a pressure vessel that fails at 200 psi. Anyone else here ever get pushback for redoing work that already passed the eye test?

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