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Forgot to check my bevel angles before a big weld in Baton Rouge
Was working on a pressure vessel job last month outside Baton Rouge and laid out a full pass without checking my bevel angles first. The fit-up was off by nearly 3 degrees and I had to grind back almost 2 inches of weld to fix it. Lost half a day and the foreman chewed me out in front of the whole crew. Has anyone else had a fit-up go sideways because they skipped the pre-weld check?
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adams.faith2mo ago
Yeah, "grind back almost 2 inches of weld" really hits home. I've been there, except mine was a structural beam for a mezzanine and I had to cut out a whole 3 foot section. That grinding dust gets everywhere, and you can't even hear the foreman yelling over the wheel. I've learned to triple check everything now, but man, that wasted time still stings.
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aaron_ellis4224d ago
Man, that sucks. I've been there with a different kind of metal - had a rusty I-beam for a carport that I just eyeballed the bevel on and tacked it up. Woke up the next morning and it had sagged a full half inch in the middle. Had to torch the whole thing back down and start over with a proper angle gauge. That grinding dust gets in everything, your hair, your shirt, your truck seat for a week. Your foreman sounds like a real piece of work too, getting in your face like that.
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