Pretty strange outfit to work for, Henry, they didn't much care if you stood around all day, just don't get caught rolling up before 10 minutes to quit time. Made us walk around and pick up trash all day a few times.They were always running out of consumables like clear lenses and tig cups, grinding wheels and such, strictly a poor boy mentality. One time they ran out of 3/32 7018 for a few days, also 3/32 TIG wire. Went up to the tool room to get a harness one day....fresh out, go borrow one from somebody. Oh yeah, we got those on order.
Buncha amateurs, really.
Too bad, cause there was a lot of nice pipe to weld there, lots of 18" and 20" in sleeper racks and up in the pipe rack. What was weird, they weren't X raying or hydroing hardly any of it, just weld it up then, the insulators started covering it up. Weird... Wasn't a terrible job, just strange for me after working in a fab shop in Alaska for so long that always had everything you needed, or if they didn't, they got it right away.
What was your student's name, I may have met him...