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Post by awill4x4 »

Struth wrote: Yep, and god look out if it isn't on the drawing.
You would prefer we just wing it and have a guess Struth? ;)
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Post by Dylan 191 »

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Oh, and boilermakers tolerance is 1/4" if they really try and give themselves a headache, welders work to parts of millimetres with ease :finger:

Cheers.[/quote]

welders working to parts of a mm .... no chance buddy
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Post by Struth »

awill4x4 wrote:
Struth wrote: Yep, and god look out if it isn't on the drawing.
You would prefer we just wing it and have a guess Struth? ;)
Regards Andrew.
:D I am worried about being censured for this sort of talk being in Tech instead of GCC.

But I have met and worked with too many boilermakers to consider them good for R&D or developmental work, so IMO they don't fit the environment in which I am used to working metal.

That said they weld very well and understand heat input, etc, all the things taught during the apprenticeship. :D

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Post by Struth »

double post :oops:
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Post by fester2au »

Struth wrote:double post :oops:
Haha that sounds like the sort of mistake a boiler maker would make. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Post by KiwiBacon »

UrbanRedneck wrote:
Struth wrote:
awill4x4 wrote:
Struth wrote: Oh, and boilermakers tolerance is 1/4" if they really try and give themselves a headache, welders work to parts of millimetres with ease :finger:
Cheers.
Dems fighting words Struth :finger:
:rofl: Thought they might be :D

Can't resist a dig at dem big dumb boilies out there, god love their little minds :armsup:
Perfect example today, we have a boily works in our shop doin a job i normaly do ask me for a measurement was told twice it is on there i was told twice it wasnt walked over and pointed straight at it was told that it wasnt clear enough what it was. ONLY DRAWING ONLY MEASUREMENT ON PAGE AND HEADING SAID WHAT IT WAS.
:roll: :roll: :D
I had one ask me if 500kg was 50 kilograms. :?

I asked him to repeat the question twice, just to make sure I hadn't missed a word somewhere.
That said, he could lay welds with a mig that rivaled submerged arc. Just wasn't much good at following drawings.

For tolerance, I design fabrications to +/-1mm per metre. If it needs to be better than that then it gets machined after fabrication.
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