cami

Hello, Mr. Finnr! I like the rhyme in your signature about stirring coffee with one's thumb. I grew up on Northern Vancouver Island and we had a similar rhyme about loggers.... I just thought I'd drop you a line from Ladysmith, British Columbia: Good day, sir! Respectfully, Cameron Watt

Sorry I made a mess and put this backwards....It's way past my bed-time..

Actually even though Canada uses Systeme Internationale(metric) measurments, tradesmen up here use SAE units because we're so closely tied to American suppliers...I recall hearing that Lincoln Electric supplies more weld consumables to the state of Texas than all of Canada; talk about living next to an 800# gorilla! ;) Our codes for electrodes are virtually the same as the AWS codes; except we use metric units for the tensile strength of weld materials and have no electrodes approved for downhand welding. In fact, every Canadian welder I know thinks in terms of AWS and SAE units. It's hours past my bed-time and I'm going cross-eyed; good night, sir. Respectfully, Cameron Watt.

I was in the Canadian Armed Forces as a Reservist but never did any welding. Later on, after training as a welder, I heard about a welder from the Armed Forces applying to a shop where a friend worked....which is to say that this information is purely anecdotal. He had a ticket for every pre-qualified welding procedure(PWP) on the books in British Columbia and apparently all welders in the Armed Forces did; they were given every opportunity to practice and certify. T The standards for all of our common pressure vessel procedure tests(the PWP's) mirror ASME standards....

Pardon my rant here: Ignore, flame, or reply as you see fit. Hello! Am I correct to assume you were a welder during your time in the services? What's milspec welding about? I'm familiar with milspec standards for components and such, but didn't know there were procedures too. What I know is nothing, really, about milspec details; I was just taught that if a component had milspec written on it, I could trust it over a component that didn't.