He has been away at work, and his car in my storage unit for months. Just turned 25, today, and unable to enjoy his pride and joy.

As we say in the south, Bless His Heart!

 

Thanks man, I can say I'm having true withdrawals out here driving work trucks everyday the maxx cab cummins will only do 103 and takes too long to get there.

 

Happy B-Day William!

Congrats on your 1000th post too...

Hope your car gets sorted!

 

Happy B-Day! So what do you do OS? I have my guesses by your screen name, but just curious.

 

Specialize in automated ultrasonic inspection of welds usging phased array ultrasonics and time of flight diffraction.

Also hold certs in radiography(industrial x-ray)
And 4 other methods of non-destructive testing methods

 

Wow, I am a geek, but I have no idea what you just said! lol

 

I use the best equipment in the world with the tightest criteria for the job to inspect welds for oil n natural gas pipelines on shore and off shore. I'm the last person to view the weld and accept or reject it before it goes into service.

Currently in the boonies of Alabama putting a line from Mississippi to Pensacola 42" diameter and after the compressor station 36" diameter

 

Yeah, chad. You thought he was going to say he looks for viruses on Microsquash machines.

OS, man, do your job well and nobody ever hears about you! Keep up the good work.

 

Funny Jon! That sounds like an interesting job! Definitely saving the planet! You probably see a set of headers and go, who the heck welded that junk. lol

 

I am a welding critic I find myself looking at welds on things going really? I wonder how long it will hold..

The ones that worry me are the roll cage welds I see with in-adequate penetration, undercut and just bad prep work.

I've met thousands of people who can weld only a few I call welders who can make metal into forms of art with there shear skill

 

Here are some work photos I Run the big white box and have a coouple helpers outside put the scanner on the pipe and it drives around the pipe looking for defects by my control.

there are 2 different companies ultrasonic equipment featured, First is Applus RTD's latest Paulis 128 element Phased array Rotoscan , Second photo is of GE's Weldstar also 128 element Phased array Unit, last is the system im running currently Shaw (SPS) Phased array 96element unit that mixes Phased Array and Conventional Ultrasonic Probe technologies for in their words High Definition Ultrasonic Inspection.

The silver pickup is filling up my mainline rig with h2o also known as the Good weld fluid, not to be confused with bad weld fluid that i from time to time fill up the rig with and keep everyone in line. (they nick named me out here the Butcher) because i dont even skip a beat about telling a welder how bad he screwed up down to sizes as small as 1MM in length and .1MM in Vertical height.

 

the first pic on the right is my shack with 42" calibration block and my scanner on top, on the left is a welding shack they set on the pipe and seal off to stop wind and debri from getting into the weld. (this is mechanized Mig welding)


and the next photo is of how they Bore the pipe lines under a road.

 

Neat stuff! Thanks for sharing!

 

+1 thanks for sharing those photos and explanations.

 

I figure you guys are like me n like a visual more then a book about something