Testing is Cake

As I posted earlier in the week, I started my new job at SPM Flow Control, Inc.. They've made me a tester. Basically what I do is test the parts that the Valve Assembly has produced, so that they can be sold and shipped out to the oil and gas field. It's a very easy job. All we do is grab a cart, bring them around to the testing booth.

The testing booth is a 12x12 steel reinforced box with 2 doors. One door has a conveyor belt going through it, the other is door is the entrance. So we push the cart in through the door, wench the part up and place it on a steel stand. Hook up the bull plugs to each end of the part. Bull plugs are a circular piece of steel with a special hose connection on the end. This provides the water and air pressure for the testing.

We get everything in place and shut the door with this control box. Sit down at the computer and pumping controls. You type in the job information and serial numbers for the parts you're currently testing. Start the pumping and hit the Begin Test button on the program. The software is pretty old, but isn't buggy at all, so that's a good thing. You run up the pressure at the specified working pressure, let it sit for 1 minute. Some are 15 minutes if they're DNV. DNV is a status given to parts that go over sea's to the Middle East, Russia and the Orient. You can also view the parts while being tested with 2 video camera's setup inside the booth and if the part passes the computer will tell you.

Anyhow, the job is cake, I love it there. I'm going to try to get my brother Eric a job there soon. So we can get back to collecting that cabbage.

That's all for now,
-Allen