Hello all
I'm doing some work - Factory Production Control systems for steel fabricators.
If the welders can readily measure their fillet size, they can
- "calibrate" their judgement and keep just over (-0%/+small%) the required fillet size
- it isn't necessary to design conservatism into the fillet size specified (???)
Fancy gauges like "The Welding Institute gauge"
formatting link
produce farcical inconsistent results - thanks for demo by good friend, where a room full of welders and engineers got wildly different measurements many of them clearly nonsense far from the obvious "about 6mm" (or whatever it was).There is the "Murex fillet gauge"
formatting link
This looks good - simple, robust, rough-and-ready, little-affected by shape distortion around the weld, etc, etc, etc, etc. And cheap - so every welder can have one.What do you reckon? What do you use? What do you specify? etc.
???
Rich