Chet:
I will be compensated for my time (including each time I have to re-issue the WPS's and PQR), but my performance is also in the interest of my client (the fabricator) as well. I have been outspoken on this subject, but my client is concerned about politics. I would think the $$ they have wasted messing around with this for so long would have been the indicator that it is time to quit screwing around and move on.
SMRF's are fracture critical, but not like a bridge. D1.5 does not apply here, but you would think it did based on the project specifications. The D1.5 FCP is not contractual in this situation.
The RDP's specifications are lengthy, but he has to look to others to get an interpretation of his own specs...
All of the "required changes" that we have been asked to make are not in our contract, bid documents, the code, nor in any changeorder. These guys just think we should do.
Some of these changes (to name a few) have been:
a.) change the root opening for fillets from 3/16" to 1/16"
b.) change the amperage from 225 to 250 (to a number that is exactly like that of LIncolns recommended numbers)
c.) This is a good one: Make the WPS only for this project(?), The proponent has stated these WPS's can only be used for this project (again with the ??)
Yes. Yes I am having fun.
This sounds like a client we had that didn't know that much about welding, but was reading some stuff and kept asking for anything they read about that was beneficial for the situation in their reading, but may or may not have any beneficial effects on the welding at hand. We had to just keep telling them how much time and money everything would take, and they backed off of 90% of their requests. I have never heard of conformance testing for every lot of FCAW electrode for structural work. We have to do that sometimes, but it is for Nuclear work, or submarine parts and the like. You aren't bulidng a reactor are you?
I think clients get like that when they are scared something will go wrong, but the price and schedule usually scare them even more. I'm glad I don't have that client, we have enough of our own like that!!