True enough DekDee, when i wrote that statement in my mind I was not taking into consideration the number of passes required to fill the rest of the joint with F4.
I do appreciate the destiction between Prodcedure Qual and Welder Qual but the opening argument in the thread from which the quoted post is taken concerns itself with Welder Performance Qualification and only talks about the WPS as the mitigating factor that ultimately defines the qualification...
I was reading some old posts as I am a new CWI and I am trying to clarify various definitions as given by the code books. One that I have been studying is QW 452.1(b). I teach an advanced pipe welding and fabrication class and I have been introducing various qualification requirements to the...