The Essential Toolkits of 10 Industrial Trades
A field guide to 100 tools used across ten refinery and industrial trades, with practical context for selecting and using them.
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20 Places Outside Oil & Gas Where FR Clothing Is Used
Explore 20 workplaces outside oil and gas where flame-resistant or arc-rated clothing may be required based on the hazard assessment.
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20 Jobs You Wouldn’t Expect to Require FR Clothing
From engineers and surveyors to inspectors and drivers, explore roles that may need FR clothing when worksite hazards require it.
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You Can Tell a Lot About a Welder by the Gap He Asks For
A pipefitter’s look at why root opening, bevel, root face, welding process, and the approved WPS all shape weld-joint fit-up.
Read article →The Real Cost of Chasing Per Diem Across America
Calculate what a traveling trade job really pays after lodging, food, fuel, vehicle wear, unpaid travel, and time between jobs.
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Næxon Launches a New Size Guide — Find Your Fit Before You Order
Find your fit with Næxon’s size guide for welding caps, work shirts, gloves, and bracelets, with Standard and Metric measurements.
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Top 100 Blue-Collar Insults: The Unofficial Language of the Jobsite
A humorous collection of 100 jobsite roasts and one-liners familiar to pipefitters, welders, electricians, and other trades.
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From Drawing to Installed Pipe: The Life of an Industrial Pipe Spool
Follow a pipe spool through design, isometric detailing, materials, fabrication, inspection, transport, field installation, and turnover.
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The Anatomy of a Good Gang Box: What Experienced Travelers Actually Keep
A gang box is a crucial tool for industrial travelers, designed to streamline operations and protect essential equipment. Unlike mere storage units, these boxes are meticulously organized to ensure that the right tool…
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Refinery Unit Trips: What Actually Happens?
Understand the sequence of alarms, instrument actions, equipment shutdowns, relief, and operator decisions during a refinery unit trip.
Read article →Why Work Shirts Always Seem to Tear in the Same Places
Learn why repeated rubbing, bending, pulling, washing, and heat cause predictable wear on industrial work shirts.
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Introducing Ayso: Piping Isometric Generator is now Live!
Introducing Ayso, a browser-based piping isometric generator that builds drawings from a starting connection using pipe, elbows, tees, flanges, valves, reducers, and caps.
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