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black.amy
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9h ago
Made a 3/4 inch socket extension to reach a stubborn manway bolt and it saved me an hour
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williamh65
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9h ago
Heard a guy at the job site in Gary say 'a boiler is just a bomb with manners' and I can't get it outta my head
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briancampbell
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14h ago
Switched from stick to flux core on a 1/4 inch firebox and cut my cleanup time in half
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paulk89
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1d ago
I spent 11 months torquing tube sheet bolts in the wrong sequence and a guy from Local 146 caught it in 10 seconds
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the_max
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5d ago
Appreciation post: the boilermaker at the job in Gary who showed me I was rolling tubes way too fast
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abby_henderson
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6d ago
A 30 year hand at the shop in Gary told me my welds look like sausage links, and I finally get why
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tara_mitchell
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7d ago
I thought torque sticks were a gimmick until my foreman made me try one on a flange job in Gary
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annahunt
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8d ago
Dropped $240 on a digital tube bender app and it couldn't even handle a 4 inch offset
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reese86
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8d ago
Blew a tube sheet on the boiler rebuild in Gary and it cost us 3 days
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blake302
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9d ago
Found out my grandpa helped build the boilers on a WWII ship in 1943, and I never knew until last week
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amy_foster56
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10d ago
A old boilermaker in Baton Rouge told me to stop grinding my welds flush and it took me 5 years to get why
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gavin_kim3
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10d ago
Rant: welder on my crew gouged a 6 inch root gap on a pressure vessel in Gary last month
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tara_mitchell
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10d ago
Dropped $380 on a hydraulic tube roller for one job and it's been sitting under my bench for 8 months
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cole_davis47
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18d ago
Spent 11 hours chasing a leak on a 300 HP firetube only to find a pinhole in a $4 gasket
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wren_carr
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22d ago
Showerthought: spent 6 hours chasing a leak on a 40 foot stack at the plant in Gary, turned out to be a pinhole in a weld I passed 3 years ago
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