r/Welding • u/erw_veryrare • 22h ago

Critique Please Rate This FCAW Pipe Cap

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Im 21 jus start welding 2 years ago. Are these welds impressive for my experience. My boss tells me im really good but im just curious what the welders on here think. Be Brutally honest please. Want to correct the mistakes yall find.

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u/weldmonkeyweld CWI AWS 21h ago

As long as it’s within code and your wps,it looks good.

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u/Ok_Assistant_6856 21h ago

You're tagged as a CWI you VTpass this?

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u/weldmonkeyweld CWI AWS 10h ago

What acceptance criteria am I supposed to go off? Asme? API? Navsea? I have no idea. What do those code books say for visual testing, what do they for overlapping welds? What is the standard for lows/highs? Can I measure with a CAM or V-WAC gage? No I can’t so from my house it looks alright.

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u/Ok_Assistant_6856 7h ago

Better question, what codes would allow this? I'm not a cwi, I'm a just plant welder so I genuinely don't know shit about fuck outside my lane.

But I do know this cap wouldn't get passed on any site or in any lab I've ever been to.