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leo107•4h ago

A 68 year old hand told me my tube rolling was too pretty and it stuck with me

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sandra_black•7h ago

I paid $174 for a hydraulic torque wrench that sheared off on the third lug nut

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the_troy•18h ago

Rigged out at a jobsite in Gary and noticed the pressure gauge on our old 60 gallon tank was stuck at 120 psi, that gauge had been lying to us for who knows how long

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avery_roberts67•1d ago

Warning: I preheated my boiler tubes to 400F before rolling, and the tube sheet pulled way less than usual

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stone.sarah•2d ago

I thought a torque wrench was overkill for tube rolling, then a job in Gary proved me wrong

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wyatt513•2d ago

Wrote off fire blankets for years till a slag spill in Gary changed my mind

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calebscott•6d ago

Warning: my vacuum box gauge was frozen and I did not catch it for a whole shift

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wyatt513•6d ago

Unpopular opinion: I ditched my 4 inch grinder for a 7 inch on a 30 foot tank job in Gary and won't go back

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sethp26•7d ago

Spent 9 hours on a rolled tube in Pittsburgh, still not sure if I should have scrapped it

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ray648•7d ago

My old foreman told me to stop measuring from the fitting and start measuring from the pipe, and it finally clicked on a boiler job in Gary

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jamieh76•7d ago

Appreciation post: the welder who let me watch him tack a header in Wichita

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bennett.luna•9d ago

Bought a $180 tube roller die set that sits in my box collecting dust

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avery_roberts67•10d ago

Walked through the old Kaiser shipyard in Richmond last month and half the rivet guns are just sitting there in the same spots

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green.jessica•11d ago

I thought tube rolling was a waste of time until a job in Gary taught me otherwise

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lily_ramirez4•12d ago

Unpopular opinion: hitting 500 tube welds on the same job taught me the first 100 were mostly luck

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