ASME Sec IX, QW - 193

DHURJATI SEN
Kolkata, India

dear sen
this code is for tube to tube sheet welding.I am looking for a code for repair of an area on tube sheet that damaged by cutting blade.

What is the construction / fabrication code ?
That is where you will find your answers.

A welding engineer would be able to help here.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

If it isn't fabricated then it is still raw material, is weld repair of this material allowed?

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P.E. Metallurgy, consulting work welcomed

dear sirs
I have welding procedure for build up on this tube sheet but my client dont accept any build up repair on tube sheet without any standard code permission. I am looking for a standard code for permission of doing welding build up on forge material.

UW-42.

Procedures do not make welds, and neither do codes.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

Is this a cooler?

DHURJATI SEN
Kolkata, India

ANSWER THE QUESTION IF YOU WANT SOMEBODY TO HELP ! - What is the construction / fabrication code ?

it is tube sheet of shell and tube heat exchanger

ASTM A266 (carbon steel forging) says this about repair welding -

9. Repair Welding
9.1 Repair welding of forgings is permissible only at the
option of the purchaser. If repair welding is performed, welders
and weld procedures shall be qualified in accordance with
Section IX of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.

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TMoose,
Are you saying 'read the material specification'?

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

Hi Ironic,

Yes.

But I proposed something similar in alisharif's double post in some other ET forum.
Here we may well have a language complication, in which cases I am sometimes willing to try to "prime the pump" a bit rather than resort immediately to applications of "the stick."

Also, yes, I enjoy mixing metaphors.