Talking to an old pipefitter on a shutdown made me rethink grinder wheels

I was grinding down a weld on a boiler tube sheet outside Baton Rouge last month when this old pipefitter on cleanup duty said I was burning through wheels too fast. He showed me how he angles the grinder and eases up on pressure instead of forcing it, and I got almost double the life out of my next wheel. Anybody else pick up a trick like that from a guy who wasn't even in your trade?

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casey9437d agoTop Commenter

Man that's the kind of stuff you just don't learn in a classroom. I love how the old timers always have a better way of doing things that just makes everything easier.

abby_martin287d ago

Learned more from one old timer on a shutdown than I did in four years of trade school.