random work pics & shit ***updated june 17/08***
 

so, i'm working as a QC/QA at a chemical plant, there's not much going on so i am playing welder/welders helper. basically hangin out in the shop doing ---- all.
they have this ---- called Alloy 20, a 4" sch40 pipe is worth $1000/foot.

i'd say this is about $600 worth of pipe that i fucked up.
it's kinda different to weld too, sorta like stainless but different.

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my hot pass, looks good ya? turned out not too bad.

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trying to do a fill/cap in one pass. ya i burned the ---- out of it, hahahaha.
it was sugared to ---- inside, i didn't bother hooking up the purge lines, maybe on monday i'll do a root and purge it.

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That's some pricey piping. :o Just be like, "well look on the bright side guys. Atleast it looks better then if it was fluxcored. Think positive!" lol

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is that stuff like iconel or something? 1000 a foot, ---- :o

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sort of, it's not quite as 'dirty' as inconel or incalloy.

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that is mucho expensive too MAS PASOES :8 :8 so is it light ass hell dose it take mucho grande temperature to get it humping and jumping when welding?

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ya what makes it so expensive? its gotta be light as hell or just strong as ---- to warrant a price tag like that

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Its eatable and taste like chocolate. ;)

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its incredibly resistant to corrosion.

its a "super stainless" steel

we're putting it in a process section of the plant that handles a chemical that is incredibly reactive, flammable when contact with air, and explosive when contact water.

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Potassium?

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cesium?

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Aluminum Alkyls

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Your work provide ---- for Nasa or something? ------- rocket engine ---- right there.

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nope. they make Linear Alpha Olefins

hexene, decene, octene, dodecene, etc. etc. it's all on their website if you're interested. www.ineos.com

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Dude, it's that ---- Wolverine's claws are made off!!!

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dumb ass, take that ---- to the scrap yard. metal is up fool

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------ albertan's

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ya downtown is paying 200 a ton know just for prepared steal, use to be only 60$ a ton when i worked there two summers ago pretty sure it still was just a bit ago too. basically you would get a bomb ass paycheck taking in a foot of that pipe lol. you guys get people ever stealing scrap pieces of metal from there?

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i'm not working on that site anymore, i'm working at a different one now. i should upload some of my pics of government projects from this site, i've had a lot of time to build ----, i'm actually running out of ideas of what to make

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sodium?

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no, as stated above, aluminum alkyls.

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Wow thats a hell of a responsibility material cost wise and safety both!

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yeah, i guess. it's the same as anything else in industry though, if you ---- up people die. thats why alberta pressure welders make $100+/hr i guess. lol

anyway, i've taken a few pics of stuff i made on this new job site, just messing about.

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stainless air reservoir for one of the lead hands S10. low-rye-derz

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stainless brake handle for a roll weld spinner.


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one for me, one for the welder i'm working with, and one for the welders foreman.


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some kind of spear made out of re-bar that some pipefitter wanted me to build for him, then i ended up cutting it off cause it didn't work how he thought it would. i could have told him it wasn't gonna work, but i'm not paid to engineer ---- so i just build what i'm told and keep my mouth shut. haha

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messy fab table, empty grinder stand. good times.

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oh, and one more.
hard at work inside the plant under the highline.

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what did the spear not do correctly? how do you ---- up a spear?

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by telling someone to make it 6" long

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they were trying to pull some kind of scrubber or filter out of a vessel with it, i dunno exactly, i don't do the bitch work, i just build ----. heh