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derek_lee•1h ago

Am I the only one who marks tube sheets with a soapstone before rolling, not after?

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craig.viola•2d ago

Showerthought: switching to a 3 pass root bead on thin tube saved my last job in Gary

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gavin_kim•3d ago

TIL the old boiler room at the Kaiser plant in Fontana has hand-cut tube sheets from 1952, and the spacing is tighter than anything I run today

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phoenix_brown85•5d ago

Spent 9 hours on a tube sheet leak that turned out to be one cracked ferrule

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taylor_patel•6d ago

TIL the old timers used a piece of chalk on the tube sheet instead of my $60 marker, and it actually works better

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the_sean•8d ago

Watched a guy in Gary, Indiana roll a tube sheet by hand in 1998 and it changed how I check every fit up

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phoenix_brown85•10d ago

A 30 year hand told me to stop hammering stays like that on a 60 inch shell

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val_ramirez•10d ago

Stopped wire wheeling my tube ends before welding and my reject rate went from 1 in 8 to almost zero

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williamhenderson•11d ago

Rigging a 60 ton vessel in Beaumont, my chain fall slipped and I still think it was the right call to keep going

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henryt18•14d ago

Rented a 400 ton crane for a tank job or built the scaffold, and I'm still second guessing it

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marybutler•16d ago

Took apart a 30 year old water wall tube and could not believe the scale difference

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margaret879•17d ago

Heard a guy at the hall say he never tests his welds, just 'eyeballs' them

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kai_burns73•18d ago

My foreman in Gary told me to TIG the root or stick it, and I went the other way

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scott.olivia•21d ago

Tried leak testing a 60 foot tube bundle with the soapy water trick and found 9 pinholes the hard way

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the_viola•25d ago

Old timer at the hall told me he tacks a strip of soapstone to his hard hat, and I've been lacing mine wrong for 6 years

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