On Sep 21, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Steve McKenzie wrote:
> Wish I could agree with your welding comments - Been doing crap
> welds for 40 years, and playing crap golf for 5 expect to continue
> being crap for years to come. Its probably to do with my lack of
> coordination and unsteady hands, although I must agree that
> intensive practice yields a short term improvement. Then its back
> to crap.
I've done a fair amount of accident investigation, and the rule is cherché la connection. Most of the structural failures I've been looked at with have involved broken connections--bolts, welds, rivets and rigging elements. And most of the weld failures I've looked at involve repair welds. If you do it right you can get just as good a repair weld as the original, but no one ever has the time or money to do it right.
> Been doing crap welds for 40 years, and playing crap golf for 5
> expect to continue being crap for years to come
Sturgeon's Law: '90% of science fiction is crap, but then 90% of
everything is crap.' Probably holds as true for field repairs
including welding as for science fiction, except if it gets you home
in one piece that's probably OK.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=LHKwZhvoCCfOrqtMJrhRLisjO7pTp5PAq0AaohPf7jLzmALf6cPl25y9T4J9KsesvKUk_ulji8dt_Q">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.
.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania1864)
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