[TheForge] Re: trade secrets

[martin paietta]

Wow. I have been doing TIG for about two years now and it does not help just
watching. I actually am in class for TIG pipe welding. It is a pain in the
ass and just watching someone doesn't help. It takes a ton of practice. Well
know that I think about it there are a couple of things that we were shown
that did make it easier, but unless you were already fairly good at TIG it
would not really help. 

Cheers
Martin 

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Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 7:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: trade secrets


>>Many years ago (Early 70's) I was cutting out of school and working in 
>>a body shop, mainly sanding cars, and I used to watch this old guy who 
>>came to do the lead work on the old classic cars. I watched him a 
>>couple of times and he came over and yelled at me ........


I started working as a boilermaker in 1974, pretty much right out of high
school.  I started out in a small boiler repair shop, then oil refineries on
big turnarounds when an inexperienced kid could be of some help, then power
plants, mostly coal fired boilers. When I started meeting and getting to
know some of the older guys who had been in the business since the 50's they
told me that if you approached Tig welders working on a tube repair or
replacement they would just stop working till you left so that you wouldn't
see the process.  Weldors have always been more valuable than mechanics and
riggers etc to the contractors cause they always assumed a weldor could also
do their work. Tig weldors even more so.  Thus they protected their special
station within the field as long as they could.  That hasn't been the case
since I became involved but it's part of  field contruction history in the
Philadelphia area and probably in many other areas of the country.

Best,
Bill Woolley 


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