National Board R-stamp

website address for hartford (insurance company) www.hsb.com would be an independent third party to insure tht you are following your proceedures and verify your calculations are correct.

Not to mention the reference material that your have to purchases.

not to mention you have to get your welders (people) certified for the weld positions and also ceritfied gauges and such, welder logs, travelers. there is paper work involved.

I just completed the proces for "U", "U2", "S", and "R" stamps. All your answers and I repeat ALL your answers can be found at http://www.authorizedinspector.com/ .

excellent site,

After looking at the site, this saves alot of time for your reports. but nothing as far as implementing them, with proceedures, higharchy and such. My understanding is Guest is very new to this, and after you setting up your shop you are familiar with these proceedures, the guest is not. there still is amount of leg work that the guest needs to do to understand certification.

Look at the information as tools. All the infomation can be "dumped" on someone but the tools are only as good as the person who knows how to use them.

Thanks for the link again, I wish I had it when I set a shop to be certified.

phoenix911

I recommend to apply for both U-stamp and R-stamp, since the cost of both stamps together will be higher than the cost of any single stamp by not more than 5%.