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Check your gasket torque before you fire up, watched a door blow in Tulsa last month
Guy I know skipped his final torque pass on a 60 inch manway because he was chasing shift change and the gasket let go at 40 psi, sent the door into a handrail 8 feet away. What is your crew's rule for signing off on a torque sequence, does the lead check it or does the guy on the wrench just mark it done?
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the_anthony6d ago
60 inch manway at 40 psi is no joke, that door had serious force behind it. Your guy got lucky it hit a handrail and not a body. My rule is the lead signs off, not the guy on the wrench. The person turning bolts is the one in a hurry, and marking your own work done is how that final pass gets skipped. Lead walks the pattern with a paint stick and checks the marks himself before anybody cracks a valve.
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