Neat, a PE not practicing outside his area of competence! Send me a cc of the pic, it'll be worth 1,000 words in trying to describe.
FWIW, we once had a guy rod ALL the boltholes, and all were about 15* off vertical. I think we cut off all but two, maybe we cut em all off and the flange and put on a kwikflange so the holes would align; put rod couplings on the cut-off below the flange to reconnect the extensions we used. I'll ask my supt if he remembers, it was mid-80's. It was a post office, gov't job- waddya expect? Professionalism rooted in wage rates? I can't believe the govt sometimes. If we pay a lot of money per hour, we'll get competence, right? No, you'll get guys making too much at we taxpayers expense. Ok, send pic. glc -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Cahill Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Retaining rod on UG I don't know much about UG, looking for a little help. In these parts our work begins at the flange above the floor. I have a situation where the rods coming through the floor are offset about 4" to line up with the flange holes. The rods come through the floor about 5" radius beyond the pipe. I don't recall ever seeing this before. I only have a picture not on site yet. Looks like either they heated and bent or cut and welded. It appears to be threaded rod. NFPA 24-'02 10.8.3.1.2.4 just like in 13 says threaded . rods.not.bent. Seems straight forward. But not being proficient in UG I want to make sure that is not being taken out of context. So is it possible they used unthreaded rod and just threaded the end as it passed through the flange? Can you cut and weld? They have 4 rods where I think only 2 were required. Can you bend/weld and use more? Chris Cahill, P.E. Fire Protection Engineer Sentry Fire Protection, Inc. 763-658-4483 763-658-4921 fax Email: [email protected] Mail: P.O. Box 69 Waverly, MN 55390 Location: 4439 Hwy 12 SW Waverly, MN 55390 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.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) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.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)
