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2007-12-15 Science & Technology

Faulty sub welds spur inspection of 4 carriers, 3 more subs

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-12-15 18:42|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 You have got to be shitting me. The welders went around welding in the ship, carrying the different fillers required for the different materials being welded and just went ahead and plucked whatever filler rod was handy..

Posted by Mike N. 2007-12-15 19:01|| 2007-12-15 19:01|| Front Page Top

#2 unbelievable and unacceptably sloppy work. Did no-one do QA/QC weld testing? Heads need to roll, and NG needs to eat the big one on the costs for this shoddy work

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-12-15 19:24|| 2007-12-15 19:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Watch this one get swept under the rug. It's one thing to x-ray to find welds that are poorly done, but it's much harder to retroactively figure out which ones have the wrong materials, especially on thick parts where the wrong material may be in some passes but not necessarily on the surface passes. I agree with Frank -- heads need to roll.

Posted by Darrell 2007-12-15 19:39|| 2007-12-15 19:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Enterprise? Gracious.

Oh, never mind. Repairs.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-15 19:58|| http://www.cybernations.net/]">[http://www.cybernations.net/] 2007-12-15 19:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Eddy current NDT will pick up the difference of materials. Piece of cake ... but time consuming

Posted by tzsenator 2007-12-15 21:47|| 2007-12-15 21:47|| Front Page Top

#6 if they're AWS-certified, as I'm sure is req'd, they know better. Should pull all AWS cards and make every one of these lazy ignorant assholes recertify - you have to KNOW what base metal and electrode/wire to use before you start current

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-12-15 22:19|| 2007-12-15 22:19|| Front Page Top

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