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Saw a guy at the Centralia plant doing a hydro test with a 20 year old gauge and it bugged me
I was at a job site near Centralia, Washington last month doing some tube work on a recovery boiler, and there was another crew there doing a hydro on a section they had just finished up. I wandered over during lunch and saw the guy running the test was using a pressure gauge that looked like it had been through a war. The glass was foggy and the needle was sitting at 15 psi with nothing hooked up. I asked him about it and he just shrugged and said it had been "good enough" for years. I get that we all get attached to tools that have never let us down, but a gauge reading wrong on a hydro is a whole different level of risk. It also has to be within date on the calibration or the test does not count anyway, so why roll the dice? I keep my own set in a hard case and swap them out every year no matter what. Has anyone here ever had to call out another crew on bad test gear, and how did that go over?
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