Rant: My foreman insisted we use a 3/8-inch rod for that patch job on the old Babcock & Wilcox boiler in Toledo

He was dead wrong, the expansion rates were off and we had to redo the whole section after a month. Anyone else had a boss give them bad filler metal advice that cost time?

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3 Comments

nelson.wesley11d ago

What grade of rod did he push for on that Babcock boiler? Sometimes the wrong spec sheet gets passed around and nobody checks it.

mila_perry1311d agoTop Commenter

Yeah, and like nelson.wesley said, if the wrong spec sheet got used, who even signed off on the final check? That's how you end up with a real mess on your hands.

ellis.hayden9d ago

Remember my buddy's crew who built a whole section with the wrong alloy specs?