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A senior inspector told me my torque seal was a mess about 6 months back
He said it looked like a toddler went wild with a paint marker. Now I wipe each fastener with a rag before applying the seal, keeps it clean and makes inspections easier for the next guy. Anyone else get chewed out over something that sounds small but actually matters?
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ross.kevin13d ago
Guy's gotta point though. I'm all for doing clean work but wiping each fastener with a rag before you mark it? That's a lot of extra steps for something that's basically just a visual check. Half the time the torque seal is gonna get covered in grime anyway (you know, once the machine actually runs for a week). Some inspectors act like it's a crime scene if the paint isn't perfect but really it's just to show nothing backed off. As long as the seal is intact and hasn't moved I don't see why it needs to look like a museum piece. Feels like we're adding busy work just to make someone happy who might not even be there next year.
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the_zara13d ago
Haha yeah I'm guilty of being that guy with the rag sometimes, @ross.kevin. But honestly it's mostly because I don't want my Sloppy torque seal to look like I did it with my eyes closed. I guess it's a fine line between being thorough and just making busywork for a guy who's been doing this since before inspectors knew what a torque wrench was.
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kelly_nelson9513d ago
...and that's exactly why I started using a different color torque seal than everyone else on my crew. Now when they bitch about my "mess" I just tell them it's a custom anti-tamper pattern. Works about 50% of the time, the other 50% I'm wiping rags and redoing marks like some kind of torque seal artist.
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