Thank you, All. I guess that there is no documented authority for either the single-cut or double-cut of a Tube-to-Tubesheet mockup. Seems to me that many welding engineers and QA personnel feel uncertain about this, and it would be good if ASME could issue an interpretation (or better still)...
Hello MetEngr: Your post (Yr-2016) ... "The code requires examination of four exposed surfaces from sectioning regardless if they are mirror images" ... described what we ourselves used to do for sectioning mockups for macro-exam. But the Code is not explicit on this, and for the past few years...