max388•1d ago

Shoutout to the guy who saved me from a tube sheet disaster in Baton Rouge

I was working a shutdown at a chemical plant in Baton Rouge last month and we had a tube sheet that just would not line up right. We were about 8 hours behind and the foreman was breathing down our necks. I was about to just force it with a come-along but this old-timer named Dave walked over and said stop. He had me check the expansion sequence on the rolling tubes and turns out we skipped a whole pass. We backed it out, did it right, and got it sealed with no leaks. Has anyone else had an issue where rushing a rollout just makes things worse?

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logansullivan1d ago

Classic. Nothing says "good morning" like a 400 pound tube sheet that refuses to cooperate. Dave probably saved you about six hours of rework and a lot of colorful language. I've seen guys try to muscle through with a come-along and end up making a leaky mess that costs more time than just doing it right. Rushing a rollout is like trying to hurry a turtle across a highway. Works out about the same.

gavinwood1d ago

Idk, sometimes muscling it through works fine if you know what you're doing.