[TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

When they were building Diablo Cyn Nuke plant, the engineering specs 
quantified the number of pounds and type of rod for each stage of 
construction. I talked to a young guy who had just proudly graduated 
from the Lincon welding school with a pretty big rating. He was one of 
the last welding hires and spent months on end opening cans of expensive 
  lo hydrogen rod, bending the rods till the flux broke off and tossing 
the result into a pit that a dozer covered over  at the end of every 
day. He was a tad disillusioned. Fortunately, i live upwind...mostly.
Pete F

Andrew Vida wrote:

> Yeah, the story kind of reeks of urban legend.  I cannot imagine even in 
> those times that a shipyard would be so foolish as to pay based upon 
> number of rods consumed.
> 
> JOHN CHOBRDA wrote:
> 
>>     My late Aunt worked building ships during the war and I never heard
>> that story, she said they got paid by the hour and how fast they could
>> produce. I thought that when the ships that did break apart, it happened
>> during the winter months in the North Atlantic and they sank, hard to
>> inspect.
>>
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