For what it's worth - did another webpage, on what was actually a significant experience to me...
I both contributed and learned. Lots of consulting with my network and probably on here. Some things I was driving "of my own accord".
Not mentioned - ultimately these webpages take time...
8mm leg-length ("z8") is "the" awkward well size. Up to "z6" - get it with a single run, with optimal conditions. "z10" and above - can multi-run with a 3-run weld.I did a two-run weld. First run in the fillet corner while "flicking" the rod out horizontally to spread the horizontal leg ("width") out to 8mm. Leaving quite a low first run. Then second run in the new corner on top of the first run. Worked well given high power - 5mm welding rods, welding machine well up to the job and "pushing" the productivity
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The tide thing - some piles you could only get at in a 2-hour window every two weeks (peak of highest Spring tide). February - wind whipping up salt-spray and a drizzle pushing rain from above. Idiot-brain here - welding anyway because of the two-week thing - lifts visor and there's a seal looking at me going "'ello, 'ello, 'ello - what's going on 'ere then?". Hope it didn't hurt its eyes. Was a few metres away. Welding - having to wear welding gear not waterproof... If would do that two 2 hours around high-tide, I could spend the rest of the day in the motor-house of the crane drinking tea and reading a book. "hugging the engine" - chilled to the marrow and no way to have a spare dry set of clothes on a smallish cramped barge. Oh yes - for that job at the "best 240A", was best to weld with other hand behind my back, because as salt-spray built-up, you became very conductive and you had to not as much as brush against the pile... Presumably you the welder became the potential of the stinger you were holding...(?) While the pile stayed at ground potential.