Blown a gasket at the Gary mill back in '09

I was swapping out a superheater header at the old Gary Works mill in Indiana when a stud snapped and took out my whole seal job, had to cut it all out with a torch and start over while the foreman just stood there shaking his head, anyone else have a job go sideways like that on a cold Monday morning?

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robin_campbell3624d ago

Hold on, are you sure that was a superheater header you were swapping? I worked at Gary Works for a bit and thought those had the big waterwall tubes, not the superheater section. That stud snapping sounds more like a reheater tie-rod issue to me, the superheater stuff usually had the bigger bolts. I remember helping with a header swap on unit 9 and we had to cut out a seized thermocouple well, that was a full shift nightmare. Either way, getting sent back to square one with a torch on a Monday is the worst kind of overtime.

miles541mo ago

Oh man, that's rough. I once spent four hours wrestling with a stuck valve on a pipeline only to realize I'd been tightening it the wrong way the whole time. My foreman didn't even shake his head, he just laughed and walked away. Left me standing there holding a crescent wrench feeling like a complete buffoon. At least your gasket blowout was a legit mechanical failure, mine was just me being a dummy with directions. Some Mondays just have it out for you, I guess.