Welding Pipe Positions [new] < Editor's Choice >

“Why’s the 6G so hard, really?” Kincaid asked, handing him a thermos.

“Show-off,” Kincaid muttered, but there was respect in it now.

“Then stop talking and get me my stinger.” welding pipe positions

Leo shimmied down the scaffold for a water break. The pipeline stretched across the Texas plain like a silver serpent. He’d welded in every position imaginable in thirty years.

He struck an arc.

Down in the rack, it was a cathedral of shadows and hissing valves. The leak whistled like a teakettle. Leo wrapped his legs around a horizontal strut to anchor himself. He reached up. The weld had to start at the —the worst part of a 5G. You’re welding on the vertical-up curve, fighting the droop, then you roll into the overhead at 6 o’clock, where the metal wants to fall into your face.

Crack. The slag peeled off in a perfect, curling ribbon. He tapped it with his chipping hammer, revealing a root pass so smooth it looked like a stack of dimes. “Why’s the 6G so hard, really

Pop. A flash of white. Porosity.