Senerio:
Outside inspector comes in and rejects several columns due to undersized welds at the toes of a column on an all around 5/16" fillet weld at the base plate to column shaft weld.
To me these welds were acceptable according to Table 6.1(6) in that they were within acceptable amounts according to this Table.
Full 5/16" all round except the welder didn't quite get 5/16" at the very corners of the toes of the flanges(barely see some daylight under the 5/16" fillet weld gage). All added up, this dimension was much less than the 10% stated in Table 6.1. so I had I let them go when performing my inspection, but an outside inspector turned them all down and wanted a full 5/16" all round the toes of these columns. We pulled thes columns back off the trucks and cooked the paint off, brushed to clean material and held the columns on a 45° with the crane to build up the very corner to 5/16" on all four sides.
Just wondering what you guys in the forum think of my approach for the next time I run into this of pulling out Table 6.1 Item (6) and making a point to not redo all of this work for what I felt was acceptable to start with.