Seeing other peoples work.........

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Easiest job in the world to pick holes in someone elses work.

As long as it holds, it doesn't matter what it looks like.

You want it to do the job, not wine it, dine and take it to bed and f*** it !

 

[Seano]

It wasnt actually the hull itself that was the problem, it was the use of lower grade iron rivets to save on costs. For the sake of what in those days would have been little money compared to the overall cost, thousands die. Havent learnt that much in all that time have we really? It still comes down to do a job as cheap as possible.

I must correct myself... the steel was not dodgy......and the problem with the rivets was pure sheer force, together with the effect of ice cold water.....

 

[scott0031]

I must correct myself... the steel was not dodgy......and the problem with the rivets was pure sheer force, together with the effect of ice cold water.....

Had quick read of that (not reading it all its to long) well thats contrary to the documentry on the failures. Documented proof of the orders that the rivets material grade had been down graded to save on costs. If my memory serves me correctly those orders were had been altered during the build of the ship and did not meet the designated requirments stated in the ships original build design.

The documentry showed the iron being the lowest grade full of impurities and and gas. Metrology reports from some of the actual sheered rivets from the hull showed that was the case. They put the core cause down to the ship becoming de-seemed where these rivets had popped due to the berg scraping across them. Hence the seams in the affected areas unzipped.


But again we are only going on what they tell us or what we read.


Kind regards,


Scott

 

[craigthewelder]

Easiest job in the world to pick holes in someone elses work.

As long as it holds, it doesn't matter what it looks like.

You want it to do the job, not wine it, dine and take it to bed and f*** it !

I guess that might be fine for people making gates and such, but if it didn't looked right to me, no matter whats its for, it won't leave the shop. I'm sure the lads i work with will tell you I'm a b****** for it, but i can count the number of jobs we've had back for re-working due to the welds not being to spec on zero hands.

I know all firms are very different and have different attitudes towards the work they are producing and thats fair enough, but even tho we're in a middle of a recession and a LOT of fab shops are shutting down we are seriously pulled out with work and a have a lot more to come, go figure....

 

[dannyweld]

look, if a weld looks bad then theres a good chance it is, something in the welding process has'nt gone correctly, the reasons for this a to many for me to start listing here on a saturday early afternoon.

 

[busa]

Personally I don't tend to look too closely at other people's work, unless that is, I happen to be paying them to do it for me. When I ran my own business the people who worked for me knew that I expected quality work from them on each and every job we did. The overall time difference between producing a well finished item and a shoddy one is minimal, and is really down to personal standards, on the part of both the employer and employee. I started my apprenticeship in 1970 and to this day I still take pride in the fact that I produce quality work.

 

[malcolm]

I've taken on a little winter project. 80% of it will be correcting other people's work.

Someone seems to have replaced the roof. Doesn't fill me with confidence structurally, and I wonder if the car was jigged at the time. (Actually I don't really wonder as it's visibly out.)

Some nasty stuff there (and elsewhere). I'll not be re-doing it just for my personal holy feeling of pride. There's safety in a crash for a start, and getting the shell straight will be another result. It'll come off again and be a whole lot more work to get right than had it been done half right in the first place.