The 2007 edition of the international fire code has a similar requirement forest Wilson Cherokee fire Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: "Ron Greenman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:00:40 To: <sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org> Subject: Re: Recalled sprinklers Gregg, To my understanding, yes. This was included to compel owners to replace recalled sprinklers of any type. The voluntary recall did not mean replacement was voluntary on the part of the owner, nor even voluntary on the part of Tyco. Voluntary meant that Tyco would take it upon themselves to replace these heads without a mandate from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The advantage to Tyco was that by voluntarily agreeing to replace the recalled heads Tyco would retain control of how that would be done. That is Tyco could determine timetables. Think about if you have manufacturing capacity that is adequate to produce a number of heads per year that bring in dollars and you have to now manufacture 33 million more that you're going to give away--wouldn't it be nice to control the distribution yourself rather than having a government agency decide for you? Had they not been pro-active and allowed CPSC to mandate a recall then CPSC would have been in control. That many of those heads (and other recalled heads) were not actually changed is the driver for the NFPA 25 requirement you reference. Potentially bad heads, whether from paint, corrosion, age or being missed during a recall still need to be replaced. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Gregg Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings Formites, > > I got into an interesting discussion yesterday concerning NFPA 25, > 2008 edition 5.2.1.16 Sprinklers that are subject to recall shall be > replaced per the manufacturer's requirements. > > Does this include the Central Sprinkler Voluntary Recall of the o-ring > sprinklers? > Some discussion was had if this was a recall or replacement. > > http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml01/01201.html > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > -- Ron Greenman at home.... _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
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