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phoenix573
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20h ago
Hot take: a $3 tube of pipe dope cost me 4 hours on a boiler feed line in Baton Rouge
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the_leo
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4d ago
Hot take: swapping my 3 lb hammer for a lighter one fixed my wrist on long seam welds
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hugos46
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4d ago
The $85 magnetic base drill press that saved my butt on a tank job in Tulsa, then quit on the next one
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val_bailey66
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5d ago
That $300 tube roller saved me more fit-up time than any fancy beveling machine
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jasonf35
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6d ago
Showerthought: the old hand on my first crew at the Gary, Indiana refinery gave me one rule, and I'm still not sure if he was right
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jamie_webb67
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11d ago
Check your gasket torque before you fire up, watched a door blow in Tulsa last month
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nancyg14
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13d ago
Foreman said my tube sheet prep looked like I did it with a grinder and a prayer, so I bought a $12 set of scrapers
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hannah320
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13d ago
DAE blow a tube sheet weld on a Friday afternoon and have to grind it all out?
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the_paul
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13d ago
The old boilermaker in Gary told me I was torquing my manway studs all wrong, and he was right
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amy_west
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14d ago
A 30 year hand told me to stop grinding my tube welds so pretty
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logan525
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14d ago
A 40 year boilermaker in Gary showed me the mud drum on a D-type boiler holds less water than I figured
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jessej23
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15d ago
Update: my tube roller broke a bearing mid-roll on a Thursday and I finished the joint anyway
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mianelson
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16d ago
TIL that purging with nitrogen instead of air on a 2 inch line cut my weld prep time from 40 minutes to 12
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rileygarcia
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18d ago
Toured a shop up in Gary and counted 6 guys working without a single hard hat
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river952
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20d ago
Guy at the Gary job taught me to check the firebox before signing off, saved me a callback
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