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Walked through the Everett shipyard museum and their 1943 riveted boiler shamed my weld beads
Stopped by a small shipyard museum up in Everett, WA a couple weeks back and they have a cutaway of a riveted boiler from a Liberty ship sitting right in the yard. I stood there for 20 minutes looking at rows and rows of rivets, thousands of them, every single one set by hand with a bucking bar. Guys back then had no inverter machines, no auto darkening hoods, and they still held tighter tolerances on a steam drum than some of the field work I see get signed off today. We brag about our gear now but half the young hands I meet can't read a fit without a laser. If you've worked on anything that old, what did it teach you that a new build never did?
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reesea4923d ago
Those 1940s Norfolk Navy Yard hands fit pipe by eye and it still lined up better than laser setups I see now.
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