Good fabrication practice cannot rectify a basic design fault!
Access for Welding and Testing
Insufficient attention is often given at the design stage to the question of access for welding. Poor access
(Fig. 3) will lead to defective welding and, in such cases, the welding process or the welder is often blamed
for the deficiency. In many cases models or, better still, full scale replicas (Fig. 4) are essential to ensure
access exists [4]. Access is not well defined but will include [5]:
(a) Operator—this means there must be physical space into which the operator can fit in order to
adequately make the weld.