[TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships

[Ralph Sproul]

Wow, them Ohio gals aint' to fussy.   :-)    But then again I dont' have
much to say as my gal keeps muttering "if you can't find em handsome, find
em handy".    I've always figured one out of two ain't bad anyway.

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Donahoe" <flyinpig at go-concepts.com>
To: <artgawk at thegrid.net>; "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:34 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships


>
> 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!)
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>  [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Peter Fels And
>  Phoebe Palmer
>  Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:29 PM
>  To: Sponsored by ABANA
>  Subject: Re: [TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships
>
>
>  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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