Preventing The Problem Before It Starts...

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Customer has a "few" excavators at his yard and one at a time they are bringing me these arm cylinders to re-weld over the ahemmmmm "Factory Welds"....I have repaired cracked ones in the past so they are just taking off the cylinders when they are in maintenance mode and having me give the port weld a once over..Dress them up with a flap wheel before welding and all is good...I get all the fun jobs.......zap!I am not completely insane..Some parts are missing Professional Driver on a closed course....Do not attempt.Just because I'm a  dumbass don't mean that you can be too.So DON'T try any of this **** l do at home.
Reply:Thats exactly why every generator shell we rebuild comes through my weld shop. Smart idea doing them while the equipment is down anyway. Nothing pisses me off more than "Uh, hey we didnt see this crack when we were sanding it. Can you fix it?" I have found places that was not even welded from the factory. So much for QC. Nice job. If you cant fix it with a hammer, it must be an electrical problem."Boy, everyone starts with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before the bag of luck is empty."-Grandad circa 1990ish
Reply:Well it's do it now or do it when it breaks ...which always cost moreI wish i had pics of when i have seen scrapers torn in two because they would not to rebuilds of the worn out trees when they were not running It's funny to see a push pull team going down a haul road with the pull scraper tractor hooked to him but they left the rest in the cut just balancing on 2 wheels and the bail hooked to the front scraperGuy in the rear all big eyed waving his arms trying to get the front guys attention and stop       Backed my CATMA over your CARMA oops clusmy me  What would SATAN do ?? Miller Trailblazer 302 AirPakMiller Digital Elite  Optrel Welding HatArcair K4000Suitcase 12RC / 12 VSHypertherm PM-45Rage 3 sawRusty old Truck