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2024-09-28 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Newport News Shipbuilding suspects intentionally faulty welds on multimillion-dollar Naval vessels

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Comparing Nondestructive Testing Methods for Welding

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-27 10:28|| 2024-09-27 10:28|| Front Page Top

#2 How does one tell "intentionally faulty welds" from regular old-fashioned shoddy work?

Posted by SteveS 2024-09-28 08:32|| 2024-09-28 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Probably one looked like a johnson.

There was a time I could assume that at this level, the welder can make a bead look like music and anything less than that is deliberate. Now, whether a black cat or non-sober or foreign saboteur on purpose is the question.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-28 10:05|| 2024-09-28 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 SteveS a good welder can tell plus x-ray of welds.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-09-28 11:44|| 2024-09-28 11:44|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 don't leave out, in this economy, it requires more work to fix which increases the bottom line of a paycheck for someone.

One theory identifies James J. Kilroy (1902–1962), an American shipyard inspector, as the man behind the signature.[6] James Kilroy had served on the Boston City Council and represented the Roxbury district in the Massachusetts Legislature during the 1930s. He worked at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy during the war checking the work of riveters paid by how many rivets they installed.[13] Usually, inspectors made a small chalk mark which riveters used to erase, so that they would be paid double for their work. To prevent this, Kilroy marked work he had inspected and approved with the phrase "Kilroy was here" in more durable crayon. - cite

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-09-28 11:58|| 2024-09-28 11:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Most faulty welds are the result of not prepping the surfaces well enough, assuming the welder knows how to weld in the first place. It does require not being tired, though.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-09-28 16:38|| 2024-09-28 16:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Speed. Get this done quick,"non-critical components".

Posted by Dale 2024-09-28 18:09|| 2024-09-28 18:09|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know about warships, but there are no 'non-critical components' on a fire truck.

That includes moral pieces, or flair, or what the kids call 'drip', a games table being installed for a multi-month deployment totally submerged, get it, but it has to stay right there when the brakes are pumped, or people get hurt...or worse. That cooler full of water, fine unless your shit goes from 30 to zero and it breaks loose and hits somebody.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-28 21:13|| 2024-09-28 21:13|| Front Page Top

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