Hot take: A foreman in Baton Rouge said my weld prep was 'just clean enough to fail'

He walked over while I was grinding a bevel on a 2-inch carbon steel pipe, said I was leaving a tiny feather edge. I started taking an extra minute to run a file over the land, making sure it was a sharp, clean line. That one comment stopped a leak test from blowing on that whole section. Anyone else get called out on a prep detail that seemed small but mattered big?

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burns.richard19d ago

Those tiny details are the whole job sometimes.

logan63219d ago

Oh man, @burns.richard, you're not wrong. It's like spending three hours on something nobody will ever see. But if you skip it, everything falls apart. The devil's in the details, for better or worse.