[TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships

[Kevin Donahoe]

Shortly after shoeing school, I had a job working on the shipping/receiving
dock at a company that made metering stations for the Alaska Pipeline.  As
the largess of jobs would come back, I ended up with about 600 lbs of
welding rod (that was to go in the dumpster after not being used on a gov't
contract), gave most of it away when I moved back to the midwest, but still
have a mess of 3/32-6010, 5/32-7018, and some odd ball stainless rods.  Boy,
I love free shyte!

Kevin D

(early date with my wife was dumpster diving behind nice restaurants for
wine bottles for home made wine, and she married me anyway!)

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 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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