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- - By SCweld (*) Date 04-29-2009 18:29
I just realized I posted this under safety.  I am not sure why I did that but I am reposting here in case some missed it!

I have been teaching welding for the last 5 years at the college level.  I focus primarily on GTAW on the hands on part and I teach the welding safety, blueprint, metallurgy and weld quality courses for the program.  I am always interested in good pictures of real world welds and defects.  Over the years I have been able to pull many good pictures and stories from this forum that cover some or many of the aspects of my classroom courses.  My only regret in the many years I spent in the fab shop welding was not taking enough pictures to show students.  I encourage all of you to post pictures and stories of your experiences in the field.  They add a lot of reality to my theory classes and help bring points home when talking about safety or weld defects.  Thanks!

Jim
Parent - - By ibeweldingsum (***) Date 04-29-2009 21:11
I've been at it for 25 yrs but i'm still learnin
Parent - - By ZCat (***) Date 04-30-2009 00:56
I took a few pictures when I was working in Alaska:
Parent - - By up-ten (***) Date 04-30-2009 01:24
Nice pics but it reminds me of where I work all winter. If thats QC looking at that spool, is he wondering why that dummy leg is out?
Parent - - By dfwpipeliner (**) Date 04-30-2009 14:42
Here is a few pics of a compressor station, built just outside Tampa, Florida.
Parent - - By fordsux8269 (**) Date 04-30-2009 14:46
DFW, was that a lo hi job?
Parent - - By dfwpipeliner (**) Date 04-30-2009 19:57
6010 5p+ root, 8010 70+ hotpass and 1 filler downhill,  7018 uphill all the way out.   Mainly 36" and 42" , 1.000 and 1.250WT
Parent - - By up-ten (***) Date 05-01-2009 01:46
How long is it taking you guys to weld out a 42"?  We're on 42" .375 wall, 6010 5p+ root, 8018 hotpass,fill and cap and we'll finish between 2.5 to 2.75 hrs. Grinding down that root for the 8018 hotpass slows us down. 
Parent - - By dfwpipeliner (**) Date 05-01-2009 13:53
Well if you burn 10hrs non stop you can get 1 a day.  With it being 1.250WT you have over 2" between the tops of the bevels and thats if there isnt a false bevel on the fittings.  The procedure only allows your beads to be 4x the width of the rod, and 3/16 is the biggest rod allowed.  Sure can take a while!!!
Parent - By up-ten (***) Date 05-01-2009 18:23
Our caps are only allowed 3x the wire diameter of the rod, so if your using 1/8, then a 3/8 wide cap is allowed. But QC has been tolerating caps that are a little wider, but I know guys will take that tolerance a bit more and will find that red ribbon flapping in the wind on their weld next morning. 10 hrs non stop. whew!  Must be a long day under that sun.
Parent - By texwelder (***) Date 05-03-2009 01:57
What size rods on what passes
Parent - - By cwf07 (***) Date 05-03-2009 02:10
Who are yall working for down in Tampa is it L.E.Bell
Parent - - By dfwpipeliner (**) Date 05-04-2009 13:42
Job is finished now, was working for Infrasource.
Parent - - By cwf07 (***) Date 05-04-2009 16:08 Edited 05-04-2009 16:10
what do they pay rig welders, here in Ga. I was talking to them about some 12" but they just want to pay 35 an hr for rigs
Parent - - By dfwpipeliner (**) Date 05-04-2009 16:58
They were paying 35/15/80
Parent - - By cwf07 (***) Date 05-04-2009 21:58
are you from fla.
Parent - - By dfwpipeliner (**) Date 05-05-2009 15:55
No Sir!    DFW= Dallas/Ft.Worth 
Parent - - By cwf07 (***) Date 05-06-2009 08:44
is they alot of pipe work out their
Parent - - By dfwpipeliner (**) Date 05-06-2009 15:35
Nope.  There is work here, but not much.  Nobody is hiring at the moment, 90% of mainline work is complete for the shale play here.  They are still drilling a little so there will be work here for a while, just not much of it.  If your not already in, you wont be involved!
Parent - By cwf07 (***) Date 05-06-2009 19:06
Theirs is not much work here I have been staying pretty busy on bridge but not what I would like. This week as been a pain with all the rain drive 2 hrs to a job work a couple hrs and come home because of the rain. Got 3 jobs going on right know I been trying to finish up this week.
Parent - - By ZCat (***) Date 04-30-2009 14:47
That's the fitter, he was still working on getting it lined up.
Parent - - By SCweld (*) Date 05-01-2009 18:19
Thank guys for the pics!  I really appreciate it.  I have many demo welds and test plates to use to show the students what welds should and shouldn't look like.  I have collected many samples over the years of welds that are acceptable under a certain codes and some that fall outside of acceptability.  Nothing takes the place of real world jobs though so I appreciate your pics.
Parent - - By swsweld (****) Date 05-01-2009 19:02 Edited 05-02-2009 04:36
SCweld, this first pic is by a newbie that just passed/graduated his course at the local Tech school. (So I'm told) We are rewelding many of the rejectable welds in this mechanical room now. IMO the newbie was thrown to the wolves as there are many very difficult welds in this basement. Not a great place to cut your teeth. Just let them know that they should stay humble as they leave the training/test shop.
The second weld is from some existing pipe from a few decades ago. 2G 6010 lace weld and looks like they rewelded a plug that was cut out by mistake and a stab in on a 1" line. Not the best I've seen but not too bad either. Just saw them the other day and thought it worth sharing w/students.
BTW-the first pic shows a fit that is not legal per specs as it should be a forged fitting or a tee, not a pipe to pipe stab in.


Parent - - By cyrus 07 (**) Date 05-01-2009 19:46
swsweld where are your pictures?
Parent - - By swsweld (****) Date 05-01-2009 23:17 Edited 05-02-2009 05:02
The welds are soo ugly they refuse to be seen on the forum.
Figured it out, finally.
Parent - - By swsweld (****) Date 05-04-2009 13:36 Edited 05-04-2009 13:41
Here's another one from a different era when you just made your own fittings. Concentric reducer. This is not allowed in any current code that I am aware of except the "Farm Code"

That does not take anything away from the excellent craftsmanship it takes (took) to figure, fabricate, fit and weld these fittings. They probably didn't have the Graves or Frankland book either.

Parent - - By up-ten (***) Date 05-04-2009 15:18
That is just simply a rarity. But a beautiful job, 3" down to 1", wouldn't you have liked to apprentice under that guy. And all 6010 too! Thanks for sharing the pic swsweld, and if anyone else has some oldies but goodies, post em' up.
Parent - By swsweld (****) Date 05-05-2009 13:29
Your welcome. Consider the contrast from the first pic of the ugly weld (pretty sure the huge weld was to cover up a huge gap) and the last pic of the "homemade" reducer. Big difference. I've seen many mechanical rooms here at Fort Bragg with similar craftsmanship I can only tip my hat to.
Parent - By Cumminsguy71 (*****) Date 05-04-2009 18:24 Edited 05-04-2009 18:43
I saw something like that the other day and thought.....WoW! I did that to a piece of 5" exhaust down to 3" before but have to give credit to the guy(s) who did this back in the day.

Here's some downhill roots and cap. Don't have any cool job picks like these guys, actually have a couple, not so cool though. I could put my pics of the dumpster enclosures I built, or the nasty one full of trash I almost repaired. The skeletons in my closet......
Parent - By darren (***) Date 05-05-2009 07:30
that is a thing of beauty, thats skill
Parent - By Cumminsguy71 (*****) Date 05-01-2009 20:32
Wish I saw this a few days ago. We cut some gas pipe off of a building and figured I would look inside(the cap looked rough)........low and behold the root was not much better. I found one that had absolutely NO penetration at the root at all. They added an addition and had to get the old stuff out of the new building, apparently the welds did not leak would have made some good pictures for the class though.
Parent - - By 250pipeliner (**) Date 05-05-2009 05:18
from one extreme to another. blythe, ca. 3 110deg.+ everyday for 3 months.
Parent - - By raftergwelding (*****) Date 05-13-2009 11:33
Blythe CA. I use to live about 45 minuted from there never thought i'd hear that name again and yes it does get the hot there sometimes hotter
Parent - - By 250pipeliner (**) Date 05-13-2009 16:08
we did hot tie-ins there one year it was 127degrees! i almost passed out. its a miserable place to live but the town is growing. was there last year for 5 months. its really nice in the winter not so much in summer. pretty nice fishing in those irrigation canals tho!
Parent - By raftergwelding (*****) Date 05-13-2009 23:44
yup southern calf. is hot as hell dont miss it 1 bit and yes the fishing in them canals is great
Parent - - By ZCat (***) Date 05-06-2009 04:09
ibeweldingsum, where's that mountain picture from?
Parent - By ibeweldingsum (***) Date 05-06-2009 14:32
That was taken in WY right by Dubois or there abouts anyway the red pipe was around powder river wy close to lysite between casper and shoshone
Parent - - By Tyler1970 (***) Date 05-06-2009 15:48
Here is a pic of a 6 in sch 80 i welded, 3/16 6010 fill and cap. tell me what yall think of it
Attachment: welddownhill-1.jpg (0B)
Parent - - By Martin G (**) Date 05-06-2009 23:47 Edited 05-06-2009 23:53
here some inside of boiler 9 crome tubes 2 1/4 crome heavy wall headers
Parent - - By hogan (****) Date 05-07-2009 17:27
Martin,
Your pics bring back a lot of memories. I spent the better part of mt 20's in boilers. I hope to never see the inside of one again.
Parent - By Martin G (**) Date 05-07-2009 23:04
some times it sucks but every now and then you get on water walls soaking up the gravy we also did some 5 1/2 thick superheat header wish i had some pics of that what ever pay the bills
Parent - - By DaveBoyer (*****) Date 05-07-2009 03:23
Tyler: It probably wouldn't look that good if I did it. :-)
Parent - By Kix (****) Date 05-07-2009 15:47 Edited 05-07-2009 16:03
Me going inside a 18" hydrogen flare line to back weld a fab shop F'up
  

My fitter bro's


Low sulfur absorbtion unit reactor repair.
Parent - - By stkwldr (**) Date 05-07-2009 16:32
I was going through some stuff and I found my skills welding test from welding school back in 1992-93. After this I took the 6G test.  The Y portion was cut off two inches above the existing weld on the main body and hydro tested for 5 min.  If it passed, you got to weld it back to the stub.  All this was done 6010. 
Parent - - By Kix (****) Date 05-08-2009 12:14
I found these gems on the U.S.S Intrepid in NYC.  Weird, I was taking pictures of welds instead of the ship. lol  J/K, I got some of the ship to.

Parent - - By 52lincoln (***) Date 05-08-2009 13:20
now thats ugly
Parent - - By up-ten (***) Date 05-08-2009 13:33
If that's the piping can't imagine what the hull looks like. Yeeow!
Parent - By 52lincoln (***) Date 05-08-2009 13:45
yea i might not want to be on that ship
Parent - By jrw159 (*****) Date 05-08-2009 14:23
OUCH! Thats fugly right there. LOL
Parent - By mongoose52 (*) Date 05-08-2009 15:48 Edited 05-08-2009 15:53
I just wonder when and who did that. I'm thinking a young sailor fresh outta A-school, been on board a couple of  months in the heat of battle, no telling!!! Any leaks?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Navy way!!!
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