Hit 500 perfect welds on stainless pipe today

I started working with stainless about 3 years ago at a shop in Portland. The first 50 joints looked like a bird made them with a glue gun. Today I finished a job that required 500 welds on 2 inch schedule 10 pipe and none of them failed the dye test. My foreman walked over and said I never thought youd get there after that mess in 2021. Has anyone else kept a log of their weld counts to see improvement over time?

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gavin_clark1mo ago

That's honestly impressive, how long did it take you?

oliver_mitchell1mo ago

The "honestly impressive" part got me thinking, actually. It's not really about how long it takes, it's more about how much you mess up along the way. I spent way too many hours on the first few tries because I kept starting over. Once I figured out the right order of things, the real work only took maybe a couple of weekends, not counting the planning. So "impressive" is generous, it's more like stubbornness and a lot of wasted time at first.