I have to assume you are working with AC not DC equipment. One possibility might be to search "Electrical Training Alliance" on the internet. This training group collaboration between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union(IBEW) and the National Electrical Contractors...
Rmore, are you a commercial business or do you do business with any NASA or US Navy related customers. Both NASA and the U S Navy have very strict training programs where all employees are systematically trained, retrained, and certified to perform any work like you describe in your post.
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Yes, and I also owe a portion of my employment to the esteemed Werner Von Braun who was just as big of a PIA as Rickover. I am just so glad I never had to deal with either of them directly. That said, the one indirect boss I really liked was Tom Kelly of Grumman. He was saddled as a young...
I agree with Mint Julep on this one. Its is not like the old days when someone from Adm. Rickover's staff coming to visit. I know for some of you that comment means nothing, but it is a tidbit of history on naval nuclear quality programs so long ago.
I did have some good mentors along the way, may they all rest in peace. I would like to honor here my bosses direct and indirect who were personally tough, demanding but had your back, and in various ways shaped my professional philosophy in engineering practice and management.
First, J. Badri...
Thank you all for your comments. Keep them coming, they are appreciated. As to what level of training I have had, I don't know because I never compared my eclectic training with a classic college curriculum in engineering.
The short answer is I went from being a janitor at Westinghouse...
On this story I was not on the purchasing end, but a "whistleblower" concerning their product. Near my residence is one of their manufacturing facilities for making flux core welding wire. The employees went out on strike and the company hired scab labor as replacements. I was hired as part of...
I agree. My late husband was a extremely competent fitter/welder and would talk about flux core wire quality a lot. We never used garbage wire in our shop; if a welding supply house failed to give me documentation when I requested it, I didn't do business with it again.
Years ago I had my own...
I am starting a new job next week working with old fashioned power boilers and other railroad components that have and will be in public use. I am scared to death on what I find as sources of material for the repair and restoration of these beasts. Hope to get away from Chinese steel, same...
Weldstan, you made a great point I forgot about regarding residual elements and identification by mill. For the curious, I worked at J & L Steel Aliquippa Works. Did my corporate operations trainee work in the Blast Furnaces, and the Round Mill. Supervised in the Welded Tube.
Before that, I...
BTW, I never had a failure on something I approved, but I was fired several times because I refused to approve something which ultimately failed systems testing.
I have never felt comfortable saying I was an NASA engineer when on my resume I could only document a BA in History as a college degree. However, I completed extensive corporate courses in nuclear, ferrous metallurgy, statistical analysis, and program management with some of the biggest names in...
I can testify that I was on the receiving end of AA when I got a phone call to work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a contract engineer. Another gal was also on my contract with about 30 guys working. At the time I didn't have the credentials to be there, so I hunkered down and...
I experienced first hand the closure of the steel mills in the 1980s. It wasn't right, the fifty men I supervised worked for me very well for the most part. I was in my early 20s then and a few groused about me taking a job away from a man. But, when they found out big sister was financially...
Does any metallurgist here work outside of a lab with ferrous material and get paid? No wonder the country is so dependent on foreign steel. I may be a dinosaur, but....
For all of you here the classic textbook in ferrous metallurgy is "The Making, Shaping, and Treating of Steel" by Carnegie...
I was merely trying to give some guidance to minimize "chasing this cow around the pasture". I said it is probably not some exotic grade of steel, but simply AISI or SAE 1020 which he can look up. This picture could be ERW vs seamless but for the purpose of the question the grade of steel...
I am the same age as the woman in the BBC story. This is exactly why source inspectors like me were and INMO still necessary. We earned our money keeping others accountable. My former profession as a source inspector and quality engineer in the defense industry under American MIL-Q-9858 quality...
Thank you for your kind words. It helps if you actually made the product as I did years ago in the Pittsburgh, PA area. I was a turn foreman for a now defunct steel company shipping this type of product by flatbed truck, rail, and barge on the Ohio River.
You also needs to know how to use an angle grinder and read the spark pattern and color. From the photos this looks like seamless tubing standard weight plain end bevel which would already be low carbon steel. SAE grade 1020 is typical with your stated Mn analysis. Carbon on SAE 1020 ranges 0.18...
