Anybody see where I laid my 5/16 fillet weld gage?

By jon20013 (*****)

Date 07-12-2007 13:52

Sorry John, I found it and cut it down so I could measure in some tight quarters. ;-)

By jwright650 (*****)

Date 07-12-2007 14:12

Well OK, but what did you do with the 7/16" end? I need that too on the base plates of these same columns.

By drifter57 (**)

Date 07-12-2007 14:04

Actually John it did not seem to be measuring right so I sent it to clean up to have them regrind the point so it will measure what the weld actually is!!!!!!!!!

By jon20013 (*****)

Date 07-12-2007 14:18

Good job!!! No more rejects! Yea!!!!!

By swnorris (****)

Date 07-12-2007 16:25

Are you sure you were in the drawing room? You couldn't possibly have any questions on drawings, now could you?

By CHGuilford (****)

Date 07-15-2007 12:34

Actually John, these guys are just covering up. I found it lying around, picked it up. Later on I took my boots off and saw that I needed to trim my toe nails. In doing that I noticed some toe jam that needed cleaning out...and well... long story short...I didn't think you would want it back (that single arc segment makes a good scraper). Your fillet gauge is now in a hazardous waste container buried under Yucca mountain. I understand there is a 50,000 year half life on that.

By Mwccwi

Date 07-15-2007 13:46

come on Chet, I read an article in the Inspection trends magazine listing you as the forum's answer guy-this is not what i was expecting from someone of your caliber :)

By ssbn727 (*****)

Date 07-16-2007 00:14

Hey Chet!!!

I personally thought that it was a very humerous answer especially coming from you ;)
Now I do'nt know how JW (John Wright) reacted because I did'nt ask him but, as long as I've been on this forum and from what I've read when you both collaborated... You two have been the best of friends and I know John a little, which would lead me to think that when or if he reads this, John would definitely be ROTFLHAO!!! ;)

It's really refreshing to read your humorous side... Keep -em coming Chet :) :) :)

Respectfully with a capital "R"
Henry

By CHGuilford (****)

Date 07-18-2007 16:38

I'm glad you enjoyed it Henry. I was concerned that I might ruin someone's breakfast.

By jwright650 (*****)

Date 07-16-2007 13:11

Visions of hazardous waste dancing in my head.....that's OK Chet, you can keep em' now, I don't need them nearly as bad now as I did the other day....LOL

By jwright650 (*****)

Date 07-16-2007 13:15

BTW, I found the one that I lost out of that set...it was right where I left it. When the guys turned the column over to repair a spot that I marked up, it fell out onto the floor along with all of the chipped slag.

By swnorris (****)

Date 07-16-2007 17:00

It's common knowledge that toe jam has an adverse effect on fillet weld gages. I pick my nose with my 5/16 fillet gage, but that's where I draw the line. I'm guessing that Chet's condition has probably progressed to fourth stage toe jam, which requires that the gage be soaked in a solution of equal parts of Clorox, Lysol, and WD40 for a minimum of 12 hours, re-calibrated and returned to service.

By CHGuilford (****)

Date 07-18-2007 09:57

I suspect that's why most of them are made of stainless steel.

By jwright650 (*****)

Date 07-18-2007 11:23

Why is that you always find them in the last place you look?....;)

See, if I could have looked in the last place first, I wouldn't have wasted so much time looking in all those other places.

By swnorris (****)

Date 07-18-2007 16:26

John,

Of course you always find things in the last place you look. Why would you keep on looking for them once you've found them?

By CHGuilford (****)

Date 07-18-2007 16:34

"Last place you look" means of course that once it's found you don't need to look any longer. Kinda reminds me of how I deer hunt - hunting is good everywhere I go, it's the finding that presents the problem.