Fit up and welding

This is how the window walls and curtain walls are tested for weather resilience. First you build a mock up of the building then you attach the system to it, strangely enough not too many pass testing. Most buildings require that the erecting be done by professionals who are certified by some building authority or union school.

What we have here are two young men laying down fillet welds with 7018 ( a low hydrogen electrode that absorbs water from the air and leaves brittle, unacceptable weldments when exposed to the atmosphere for too long) rod that has never seen a rod oven in it’s life, let alone been kept dry. I bet that the chick in Flash Dance who strikes arcs all over creation could weld better than what we have here. Humm…

If one would watch one of these go up, one might wonder where the control points and transits are, or where the plumb bobs are. I did. Guess it is plumb with in it's self.