On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Roland Huggins <[email protected]>wrote:
> OK a full break is a failure, but I wouldn't call that a leak. This comment is a deviation from the overall topic. I've always wondered why small leak, even if only detectable because of slow loss of pressure, in a dry standpipe during a periodic hydro test is considered a failure. Seems to me if you get it up to 225 or better without catastrophic failure it will work during a fire. -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Technology Bates Technical College 1101 So. Yakima Ave. Tacoma, WA 98405 [email protected] http://www.bates.ctc.edu/fireprotection/ 253.680.7346 253.576.9700 (cell) Member: ASEE, SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA, AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC, WFSC They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
