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Vent: That pipe fit took me 6 hours because of one stupid thing
Had to fit a 12-inch steam pipe in a tight corner at the old GM plant in Dayton last Friday. Spent all morning cutting and grinding, kept coming up short by exactly 3/8 of an inch. Turns out I forgot to account for the weld shrinkage on the first pass. Anyone else waste a whole shift on a rookie mistake like that?
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the_anthony13d ago
That's a rough one, but weld shrinkage gets everybody at least once.
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finleyf8813d ago
Wait, @the_anthony, doesn't that depend a lot on how much heat you put into the joint before welding?
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