Hit 100 consecutive days without a missed weld inspection call... but here's the catch

I was just adding up my logbook the other night and realized I've gone 100 straight workdays without a single callback for a bad weld. That's nearly four months of inspections passing first time. It hit me kinda weird because I'm not even the fastest guy on the crew, I take my time on root passes and always double-check my gaps before striking an arc. But honestly, I think the real secret has been just showing up 15 minutes early every morning to check my leads and make sure my machine's calibrated right. My foreman at the Marathon refinery in Detroit told me last week that reliability matters more than speed in this trade, and this number kinda proved it to me. Has anyone else tracked their inspection hit rate over a long stretch and noticed a pattern with something simple like that?

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jadep4128d ago

My buddy Sam hit 80 straight at a Tennessee power plant.

the_miles28d ago

80 straight at a Tennessee power plant" - that's impressive until you realize those reactor buildings have zero wind and dead air everywhere. My cousin worked security at Sequoyah and said the hardest part is trying to get a decent pocket of air for the shot when you're surrounded by concrete and steam vents. Sam probably had to find some weird spot between the cooling towers where the heat haze doesn't mess with your aim. Not taking anything away from him, but power plant shooting is a whole different game than open field.