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PSA: A cracked weld on a 3-inch steam line almost cost us a whole day
We were doing a shutdown job at the paper mill in Everett, and a routine pressure test showed a hairline crack in a seam we'd just finished. The foreman said 'that's a 300 psi line, it would have blown in an hour.' Has anyone else caught a bad weld that close to a major problem?
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casey_brown3d ago
My buddy at the Georgia-Pacific plant said they found a bad weld on a condensate return line using a borescope camera. That thing was a millimeter from leaking.
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thea1433d ago
That Georgia-Pacific story gives me chills. A millimeter is way too close for comfort on a line like that. How often do they run those camera checks now?
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