Mr168
Materials
- Aug 5, 2008
- 731
Is anyone familiar with any success stories involving the Surface Tension Transfer process for power piping?
The non-technical corporate big-wigs are butting in yet again, and trying to run our narrow groove orbital off an upcoming project, despite great success as of late, with their concerns stemming allegedly from "lack of pipefitter skill."
This will force us to open it up to a 20/10, which we will likely fill with our orbital flux core. However, with the diameter and wall thicknesses we're looking at, we're going to lose a lot of time running a TIG root, hot, and maybe a single fill pass, whereas we could probably get by with a single STT pass were we to implement it. Poor planning and training led to disastrous consequences several years ago when they tried it on one of our jobs, so our management is leary of giving it a second go.
The non-technical corporate big-wigs are butting in yet again, and trying to run our narrow groove orbital off an upcoming project, despite great success as of late, with their concerns stemming allegedly from "lack of pipefitter skill."
This will force us to open it up to a 20/10, which we will likely fill with our orbital flux core. However, with the diameter and wall thicknesses we're looking at, we're going to lose a lot of time running a TIG root, hot, and maybe a single fill pass, whereas we could probably get by with a single STT pass were we to implement it. Poor planning and training led to disastrous consequences several years ago when they tried it on one of our jobs, so our management is leary of giving it a second go.
