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Geirskogul posted:One pipe two pipe sick weld blue pipe Say, what a lot of welds there are!
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Mat_Drinks posted:Say, what a lot of welds there are! The last page of this threaad has been exceptional.
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I will not weld with a mig I will not weld without a jig I will not weld on an oil rig I will not weld on your crappy Lotus I will not weld without advance notice I do not like welding anywhere I do not like it Ultimate force I am.
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In our forum we like to beat a dead horse. And that is why we have an Ultimateforce. An Ultimateforce for beating a dead horse is very good. Have you an Ultimateforce horse for beating a dead horse? You should.
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Ultimate Penultimate Hyacinthia Lout could not attain small business clout Where the Cupwalk ends 
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On the 15th of May, in the shop of chop, in the heat of day, in the doing of the Dew, He was welding, enjoying the shop's great toys...when ultimateforce the welder felt a small burn. So ultimateforce stopped welding. He looked toward the wound. "That's funny," thought ultimateforce. "There's no slag to be found." Then he felt it again! Just a very faint sizzle as if some PPE was needed. "I'll find you," said ultimateforce. "But where are you? Where?" He looked and he looked. He could see nothing there but a small mig welder, there, in the corner "I say!" murmured ultimateforce. "I've never seen tell of a small mig welder, that is able to wound. So you know what I think?... Why, I think that there must be something else by the small spec machine! Some sort of tool, of very burning type, too unimportant to be guarded from, in a welder's mind... "...some poor little tool that's left plugged in, afraid of being tagged! It has no instructions to be read! I'll just have to shut him off. Because, after all, a tool's a tool, no matter how benign." So, gently, and using the greatest of care, the welder stretched his tanned arm though the shop, and he grabbed the little mig, and fumbled for the switch, and turned it off, safely, off, wearing the one thing he should never forget, his safety glasses.
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We need someone to take the last page and illustrate a Seuss style book.
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Yeah! It's a Nissan owners wettest dream. The seam is new. The seam is tight. And did you see that price?
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"Where is my welder?" he said. He looked for it. He looked up. He did not see it. He looked down. He did not see it. "I will go and look for it" he said, so away he went. He came to an Eastwood MIG. "Are you my welder?" he said to the Eastwood MIG. The Eastwood MIG just sat and sat. It did not weld anything. The Eastwood MIG was not his welder, so he went on.
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 NOT VERY EXCITING VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhwyo0Rapmc Tried out the Forster at Orlando Speed World this afternoon while I was out doing errands. Drove up on all seasons and did some laps.
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Is that one of those jokehana courses?
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Well, it's literally cones on an old figure 8 track, sooo.... (They used to do figure 8 schoolbus races there, they stopped I think after some cop died from wrecking during one. Never did get to see a race.  )
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I am personally test fitting and massaging all the row 2 vanes for a Mexican power plant right now at work. That's my update.
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Those row 2 vanes will eventually help give some Mexicans heat and light, which is something you can feel good about long after the last Skyline has rusted to ruin or been crushed
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ultimateforce posted:I am personally test fitting and massaging all the row 2 vanes for a Mexican power plant right now at work. That's a good update.
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I'm about to get fired or patted on the back.
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That's not a good update.
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This thread is basically one big rollercoaster at this point.
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Getting fired is the true sign that your business must open. If you build it, they will come.
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Be wary - sometimes they'll pat you on the back RIGHT before you get fired.
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Obviously your only option now is to quit before they fire you, stable employment doesn't seem to suit you well.
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I don't know which option will make me feel better about my life. Good luck I guess
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Ask me about repairing turbine generators. I think I know enough now to answer basic stuff. I'll try to think of the interesting things and write something up.
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ultimateforce posted:Ask me about repairing turbine generators. I think I know enough now to answer basic stuff. I'll try to think of the interesting things and write something up. Now THIS is a good update. Like.... how big are we talking about here?
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What sort of stuff actually gets repaired/welded on turbines? From watching AgentJayZ's videos on Youtube, I've got this image that both turbine disks and blades are forged and/or machined as single pieces and assembled later with various fasteners; is this not the case for power turbines?
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I work in turbine repair, which is number 4 on this diagram. Turbine can get ~some~ combustion overflow, but not very often. As for the engine size, as far as I know, they are all about this size.  That is a Siemens design. You know what's nice about the Westinghouse logo?  They circled the problem! I have no idea if this is true, but it seems like some Westinghouse parts are interchangeable with Siemens stuff and it's always junk. They stamp the logo in a place that gets ground off during repairs, maybe it's a conspiracy? Pretty much everything inside the engine gets pulled and rewelded after their service life is up. It's all metal so it can be added to and taken away from. The parts I fix that don't require ~engineering~ are the vanes that smooth the air before the rotating blades. These get battered by heat and FOD (foreign object damage) so there's always a lot to correct. Warping, pieces missing, cracks, you name it. The parts I am working on now are made from cobalt and stink (literally they smell bad) and I have to wear a respirator to weld them. Here's a drawing of them.  I think all I can say is that I put them in a jig that represents how they slide in the engine and I make sure they fit right. I use welding and grinding to accomplish this. This is as bad as it gets, but these pieces take a beating.  It should look more like this after it's done and recoated.  When I said engineering, that is left for stuff that has to do with air flow, such as those cooling holes. If I close those welding it goes through a whole other process to correct it. The actual blades that spin are all modular and come out to be serviced too. I never work on these because it's a combustion part.  We compete with plants all over the world, including China. http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Gas-Turbine-Blade_100531559.html Who ever buys this poo poo is crazy. Next time I'll talk more specifically about one certain thing, I guess?
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ultimateforce posted:*Gas turbine BS* No steam turbines?
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I have a family member who repairs turbines for turbogenerators, AFAIK mostly of the steam-driven variety. Because of a quirk of his nationality he gets contracted by Siemens and Westinghouse to go to places where things like trade embargos prevent them from dealing directly with the host country. He gets into some sketchy poo poo (he's routinely assigned heavily armed guards, not necessarily friendly ones, and you don't want to know what it takes to get precision pieces to the butthole of Russia unpillaged) but he's only on the job a few months out of the year and his annual take is still in the several hundred thousand $$ range. Shame you're a US citizen, basically
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ultimateforce posted:That is a Siemens design. You know what's nice about the Westinghouse logo? On the aviation side, Westinghouse hasn't built an engine in sixty years. Mostly because they were told in no uncertain terms by the Pentagon to never darken their doorstep again after the fiasco that was the J40 engine.
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It makes me smile thinking that there is like a 6yo Chinese ultimateforce out there somewhere making that poo poo for alibaba.
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I know it's not ~*~car porn~*~ but holy poo poo that is incredibly fascinating. UF, out of curiosity, where are most of your turbines used? I guess by that I mean, hydroelectric power plants, etc.? Because seriously, that's genuinely neat.
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As far as I've been told it's all steam or natural gas only.
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T1g4h posted:I know it's not ~*~car porn~*~ but holy poo poo that is incredibly fascinating. UF, out of curiosity, where are most of your turbines used? I guess by that I mean, hydroelectric power plants, etc.? Because seriously, that's genuinely neat. The turbines for hydroelectric plants are related to gas or steam turbines in that a fluid hits blades to make metal spin. On large dams they're pretty much just a giant propeller directly coupled to a generator. Maintenance on those is quite different since blade maintenance is done by climbing inside the housing.
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And this is why I like AI. You guys teach me all kinds of cool stuff
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Noeland posted:The turbines for hydroelectric plants are related to gas or steam turbines in that a fluid hits blades to make metal spin. On large dams they're pretty much just a giant propeller directly coupled to a generator. Maintenance on those is quite different since blade maintenance is done by climbing inside the housing. hydroelectric tubines generally don't get removed as they are giant http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/95995/Hydroelectric-turbine-generators like this.
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An insight to working for a large company. 7:00am safety meeting 7:10am work starts 9:00am stretch time 9:10am work resumes 9:30am first break 9:45am work resumes 12:00pm lunch 12:30pm work resumes 2:00pm second break 2:15pm work resumes 3:30pm end of work day That is my regular day on the shop floor. Nearly every second of that is me counting the minutes to the next break. I've been put on two 'special' jobs and then was pulled off of them twice due to poor planning, including coming in at 5am on a Sunday just to be told to go back home because the job wasn't available yet.  I'm in a really lovely mood from today but next time I will post about the materials I work with.
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ultimateforce posted:An insight to working for a large company. It's only money.
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That looks like bog standard union work. Some of the union guys I work with have a schedule posted like that, only it stretches past 5 and I'm not sure they've ever met who posted it or if he even works on site. There's also a mandatory daily worksite cleanup period at the end. It means well but there's the usual problems with a ton of dudes all slamming into the breakroom at the same time or trying to squeeze their bathroom break into the same fifteen minutes, etc. Also from working on multiple jobsites, the standard is if they call you in and then send you home because the job isn't ready, that's somewhere between four hours and a whole day of billable you get to put on your timesheet. If you're not doing this already you might want to ask your coworkers what the deal is. I get that a couple hours pay may not make up for screwing your Saturday night all to hell, but it's still money paid to go home and sit on your rear end.
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Will you post a breakdown like that of when you worked at RAW?
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