For 8 years we have had a 4ft x 4ft welding fab table that worked out but just wasn't big enough for the new builds we were asked to do for operations, the shop manager cleaned up the yard and 6 loads of scrap later we had the funds to build a new layout/fab table These are some of the photos of the...

Had some out of service tugger davits laying around the back of the shop that were going to be cut up for scrap, the shop mechanic is always tying up the fork lift moving compressors around so we decided to kill 2 birds with one stone, had to purchase the casters (7000lb, 3T beam trolley and 3T chai...

Hello Hands Anyone thinking about becoming an underwater welder please read carefully, I have been at this for 39 yr, it's been great, I started when it was booming in the oilfield, actually I have worked around the world installing and repairing and removing oil platforms and pipelines and I just w...

I am over in Saint Martinville, just SE of Lafayette, Welcome aboard

Mike

HeavyDiver, are those pins beveled/tapered, like a bull-pin or barrel-pin? I would assume so, but it's difficult to tell with the perspective of the pictures. Also, does that become a permanent installation, or is it only present until longer alignment pins, cables, all-threads (I've not done that ...

Hello I would like to introduce myself, been in the industry for 43yr, primarily as an underwater welder both wet and dry chamber/hyperbaric with a lot of surface pipeline and structural welding thrown in, I have been a CWI for the last 18yr and now due to age restriction a saturation dive superviso...

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Getting use to posting photos, have a few more, after the tig root brought it to 250F and hot filled it out with 10018HR4, haven't had any weld problems yet

Some of the work we do in our shop to support Sub Sea Completions, in the oilfield we fabricate spools for pipeline tie ins and repairs, recently we were in Venezuela installing a 31in x 68ft x 1.750 wall spool piece that weighted 65T, I was asked to fabricate (4ea) what is known as a flange catcher...