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schmidt.blake
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2h ago
Watched a 30 foot waterwall section go from leaking to bone dry in 6 hours
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green.jenny
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13h ago
Found out the average boiler tube failure costs a plant $250k in lost output, and I just shrugged at a pinhole leak last week
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emma_young
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1d ago
Bought a $220 tube roller for a small tank job and it kinked every pass, back to the old hand pump
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simon_black
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1d ago
Rant: I passed 300 tube ends rolled in a single turnaround and nobody warned me about my hands
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eric359
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3d ago
Old boilermaker in Gary showed me how to check a tube sheet with a flashlight, and I still use it
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noah_black
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4d ago
Switching to a 3/16 rod on that rework in Gary saved me 2 hours per pass
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anna_henderson76
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6d ago
Switched from stick to wire feed on a 2 inch boiler tube job in Gary, and I'm not going back
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fiona_lewis37
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6d ago
Rant: I swore by 6010 downhill on pipe, then a 30 year hand in Tulsa asked me one question
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henderson.hugo
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7d ago
Just hit 1,000 tubes rolled in my career and the number that shocked me was 300
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phoenix845
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7d ago
Vent: learned to preheat my rod oven with scrap ends from the rack, cut my dry time down to 20 minutes
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the_sage
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7d ago
Unpopular take: tube rolling is not where you cut corners, my 3 hour job turned into 2 days
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oscarm24
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8d ago
Unpopular opinion: I almost skipped the firebox door tolerance check last month in Baton Rouge because a 20 year guy called it a waste of time
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perez.cole
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11d ago
Watching a tube get rolled in Gary, Indiana back in 2013 changed how I tack everything
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wyatt_perez79
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12d ago
TIL a journeyman in Tulsa told me 90% of tube leaks he fixes start at the same 6 inches
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angela149
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12d ago
Foremaster in Gary kept a 30 year old tube roller and I finally get why
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