dr sportster
Well-known Member
I took the welding test yesterday. I took my time and thought I did okay. It was 6G postition [which I always thought was a pipe test] but it was coupons on a 45 degree angle. I cleaned each passes slag really well . In the end a pipefitter super or someone I'm not really sure who they were, wanted to fail me for stray arc strikes on the coupons.[other wedling trades do not like electricians welding but if it is for electrical work it is for electricians to weld] After I pointed out the the pipefitter who tested that day had stray grinder marks on his coupons a big argument ensued[ not me],then the employee for the General contractor said it would be sent for x-ray. [I'm not even sure if the marks on my coupons even were stray strikes or just some marks from the steel and I don't like to grind the coupons.I thought I sruck all my arcs in the groove above not off to the side at all..Bead appearance was okay or that would be an instant fail- no x-ray. We were allowed grinders and I brought some made in USA tough picks for slag. I don't think I had any slag entrapment [from cleaning slag anyway]. The bad thing is the electricians are welding on a high scaffold using MIG to weld pipe for oil-a- static. The one guy welding now, I know and worked with at the powerhouse and is a good weldor. I stressed I would like to be transfered to the high voltage splicing and terminating crew. I am told if I took the call as weldor this is not possible. I have not seen the other splicer since the drug test safety day. He is somewhere on site . Find out if I pass x-ray soon. They do not bend stress the coupons ,just x-ray. But the x-ray has taken down many a good lookin' coupon. Hate to say it but if I get run out of there there is a nice job 20 miles closer to my house.
I was not stressed at all during the test.
I was not stressed at all during the test.