It sounds like they used eye bolts instead of running the rods through the flange holes. This would offset the rods to outside of the flange.
Dale F. Wingard, SET Design Manager Triple "A" Fire Protection, Inc. 251.649.2034 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Cahill Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:21 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)
