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- From: hinz@bonfire (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
- Subject: Re: Horsepower is a meaningless advertising term.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.074722.5755@mr.med.ge.com>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 07:47:22 GMT
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- dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
- :
- : -> 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.
- :
- : 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
- Well, now, everybody seems to be coming up with some VERY good points. They
- seem to be as follows:
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- 1> Underground piping can accumulate water and be a problem.
- 2> PVC, although rated for 400 PSI, is probably NOT a good idea.
- 3> piping should slope downhill towards a H2O dump/petcock
- 4> Building codes, etc. need to be checked into.
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- OK, as I see it, these are all very good points. I think I'll use 3/4 or 1 inch
- copper, above ground, sweated joints, any comments? keep the ideas coming,
- please!
-
- : and making sure the stuff meets the local building code (if any).
- :
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- Dave Hinz - Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's. Obviously.
- Pherrets are Phun!!
- SAAB - you get what you pay for; you pay (and pay, and pay) for what you get.
- hinz@picard.med.ge.com
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