Walked past a boiler I welded 5 years ago and barely recognized it

Went back to a job site in Gary last week to do a repair on a different unit and saw this old horizontal return tubular boiler I worked on back in 2019. The welds I did on the tube sheets looked like crap compared to what I can do now, all lumpy and uneven. My foreman at the time told me I was gonna blow it up if I kept laying beads like that. Has anyone else gone back to old work and felt embarrassed about what you used to think was good?

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susanh4616d ago

Oh man, "you're gonna blow it up" is exactly the kind of thing my old foreman used to say, he'd stand there shaking his head while I ground down my beads for the fourth time. I went back to a steam drum I patched up back in 2016 and the whole thing looked like a six-year-old drew on it with a crayon, all wavy and uneven like I'd been welding with a hangover. It's wild how much your eye changes over the years, you start seeing things you missed back then and wonder how the whole place didn't fall down around you.

ivan_perez16d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah that "you're gonna blow it up" line takes me back, my old man used to say the same thing about my driving.