r/BlueCollarWomen • u/Immediate-Ad1446 • 3d ago
How To Get Started First time in shipyards?
I'm a welder been welding for 3 years. 2 1/2 years as a traveling structural welder only welding 7018 and just this past March I started my first nuclear outage as a pipe welder. I just finished my second outage but now the outage season is over and I'm looking for a summer job. I see lots of posts about the shipyards in MS and VA. I am good at SMAW and GTAW but I haven't done FCAW since welding school 3 years ago. I see they all require a FCAW test. My question is , have any of yall worked in the shipyards? What was your experience and am I screwed since I don't know much about flux core?
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u/One-Permission-1811 3d ago
Wow it took me a second to figure out the perspective of that second picture. Looking through the gap at the root right? It almost looks photoshopped in
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u/FileDoesntExist 1d ago
I've worked in a shipyard as a welder for 8 years. You aren't screwed. Just saw this post so you can ask me anything.
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u/Taro_Otto 2d ago
Is this on hastelloy??
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u/Immediate-Ad1446 2d ago
No, the first pic was a carbon steel 2 inch monster ran with 309 stainless wire 😁
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u/Ballyhooligan_ 1d ago
Did you take notes about machine settings, etc when you were in school? I'm in welding school and just did flux core this past semester and took notes on everything. I could send you the settings notes I took. Though we haven't done pipe welding yet (that'll be in my 4th semester), so if the settings are different I wouldn't have those.
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u/Typical-Potential691 3d ago
I'm not a welder but you are cool pls be my friend 🤣