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- Subject: Re: Horsepower is a meaningless advertising term.
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 25 Jul 92 20:35:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059
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- -> I worry about its air-line analog knocking the daylights out of a
- -> large- volume piping system. No flames intended, and I freely admit
- -> ignorance, but if I were gonna do it, I'd ask a mechanical engineer
- -> first.
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- No flames intended, but how's a mechanical engineer going to know
- either? He's going to find you're pumping 180psi in tubing rated for
- 400psi, figure you have more than double the capacity for the
- application, and send you a bill.
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- Frankly, I'd be more interested in calling the local building authority
- and making sure the stuff meets the local building code (if any).
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