Oil based coolant or water?
Another we use when reassembling machines that use straight synthetic oil coolant is Stucarit 309.
Rock, poor fellas have been digging nothing but solid rock on this job. They are breaking shanks left and right over there. I’ve done a pile of em.
I was a welder for around two years, welded all kinds of equipment and did a shit load of fabrication.
Yea it would be nice to able to flip those buckets around and weld as much stuff flat as possible, but it’s not really in the deck of cards. Welding the inside of the center of that rock bucket wasn’t super fun. Leaning over the sides of it to reach for long periods of time kinda blows. I’m working on getting my air compressor running again so I can run a carbon arc gouging again instead of using the torch.
Looks like you probably had as much time or more time in the prep than the actual welding.
For sure. Welding is usually the easiest part of the whole job. Especially running wire, you can lay down a lot of weld very fast. Takes a lot of time to gouge off all the old shit, make sure the cracks are all the way gouged out, cleaned out, prepped, and preheated. Hell, a cold bucket takes damn near 45 min just to heat the thing up before welding. Them big rose buds will burn through some tanks in a hurry.
The constant hard heavy loading and unloading on a machine is hard on the windings and the brushes in the generators.
Interesting. Wonder if any of that changes with these new computer board welders. This new trailblazer of mine is purely an inverter welding machine. All computer boards. I bought it with much skepticism that it’s going to live as long as my old 250gxts have. Guess we will see.
Good gracious. I bet you needed one of those shielding pads wrapped around the handle just to hold it.
I've got a 250gxt myself. Been a good little machine. Had it since 07-08.
Just out of curiosity, if they were going to have you stick it out after the root, what’s the reason to not just dual shield instead? The time savings is incredible.
Wire would be nice. Most of our work is in scaffolds or or other elavated positions. I've seen them bring more specialized welding equipment in at times where we've had a lot of heavy big bore pipe or a ton of overlay or something, but it's not common.
Don't procrastinate too long. That's what I did. I should have done that job about two years ago. I'd have had more to work with if I'd done it sooner. If I get another ten years out of it I'll be happy.
I always wondered why they had the funny hammer shaped head. And seeing these pics it just occurred, is it to keep the pulling force linear to the well?
Yes, they usually have a wire rope bridle that actually attaches to the sucker rods that go downhole.
Never in my life would I have ever believed that pump jacks would be a "tourist attraction."
People that don’t know think you just pump oil out of the ground with a submersible or a jack and its all good. It ain’t so. The recharge rate of the oil is king. You have to pump at the rate of the oil recharge or else you get all water or nothing. But even then you got to pump it down. The depth of perforation, length of stroke, motor speed and motor pulley size all matter. And then you get into pulling vacuum on the backside of the tubing. It’s a fairly simple machine but fine tuning to match the formation is a thing with real returns. Submersibles are a different ballgame with their own factors.
