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    Dry ice blasting concern on carbon steel

    Hi All, I have a client’s supplier who is proposing to to use dry ice blasting to remove a leaded epoxy paint from the internal side of a mild (0.3%) carbon steel vertical above ground storage tank. I have yet to come across dry ice blasting. My initial concern is that the process is quoted...
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    ASME Plant Inspection Training and Certification

    In the UK there are courses offered as ASME Plant Inspector" in levels 1 -3. An excerpt from the training companies flyers reads, "and ASME certificate costs are included in the course fee. Looking through the ASME website and course lists for North America I cannot find this course listed...
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    API 653 reference to ASTM A6

    In regard to API 653 "10.5.2.2 The out-of-plumbness in one shell course shall not exceed the values specified for mill tolerances in ASTM A6 or ASTM A20, whichever is applicable." Does anyone have experience with this? We have a large bulge (inward & outward)spread over many courses, using...
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    UT of Carbon to Stainless Weld - Heat Exchanger

    Hi, We have the final closing weld on a closed heat exchanger to ultrasonically test. (There is no access for radiography.) We can not find any UT procedure to test this weld. There are obvious complications with the change in speed and interface boundary between the two materials so special...

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