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Pro tip: the old guy on the Toledo job told me to stop grinding every weld smooth, and the inspector passed it first try
I was on a boiler tube job outside Toledo last month and I had been going over my cap welds with a grinder until they looked like glass. An old hand named Ray watched me for a bit and said the inspector wants to see the bead pattern, not a polished surface. I stopped grinding the caps on the next section, kept the toes clean and the ripples even, and the X-ray came back clean on the first pass. Wasted probably 3 hours a day before that. So what do you all cap yours at if you do dress them, or do you leave every bead as laid?
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kevinc848d ago
Stopped dressing mine almost all the way down after a guy on a pipeline job told me the same thing. Now I just knock off the spatter and leave the cap alone unless there's a high spot. Cut my time way down and haven't had a bad X-ray since.
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