I felt that he gave appropriate advise. Anyone organization that is required to certify there welders for a project should have the code they are working to and know how to navigate it.

They did, but I came back.

doyenofcastle,
I agree with the other gentlemen about accessing books. Also, if you had mentioned the code I/we may have been able to assist.
However, I will give you a bit of information that I used when I was just starting out as a CWI.
For your procedure qualification (and probably welder qualification) you are going to need mechanicals and/or radiography.
Get on the telephone to the nearest testing laboratory and tell them what you want to test (eg 10 mm plate, 2" pipe, 6" pipe etc) and tell them what code it is to and generally they will tell you what size coupon they require to get all the necessary test pieces.
They should do this for you willingly if they are hoping to get your work.
When we used to test in New Zealand we would qualify a pipe coupon to ASME IX / BS/EN 288 (European) and AS4041 (Australian) on the one pipe and they would all require different size or number of test pieces so we would ask the laboratory what they needed first before we did the test.
Nothing worse than spending all the time and money on welding a PQR test coupon only to find out it is too small for the required tests.
Hope that helps,
Regards,
Shane

MDK,

It's not that I dont want to help (where I can)
However, if a certifying organization depend on an online forum in order to do the correct tests, something is wrong.

As I have said before, read the code books, and then ask if any questions.....we all know that code books can be hard to understand.
Another thing is, usually the questions asked here has a lack of imortant information which makes even harder for us to answer correct and thus make our answers wrong.

He also ask a question in another thread, which indicates to me that he dont have a clue about what he and his company is about to do.

3.2

Gents; the title of this particular thread is "ASME test joint" which implies a base code of ASME IX, and ASME IX does indeed provide the dimensions necessary, HOWEVER ASME IX is NOT a stand alone Code, it is intended to be worked in conjunction with a constructing code; i.e., Boiler  & Pressure Vessel series or Piping series, for example.  Many lesser experienced people, Inspectors and Engineer's alike tend to think of ASME IX as an end all, be all code, which it is not.

It's unknown whether the constructing code requires impact testing, drop weight testing, hardness testing or any other series of mechanical tests that might be required.

That said, I have to say I agree with the other responses, if one doesn't at least have access to a Code and be "relatively" familiar with navigation of these Code(s), how on earth could one expect to properly implement and certify in accordance with said Codes?

This Forum is intended to provide assistance, share ideas and provide general discussion of matters applicable to our field, it is NOT intended to replace study nor provide consultancy on levels often requested.