I have an interesting and challenging situation: My firm is overseeing remediation of rampant leaks on all floors of the sprinkler systems in a 6-story building. Our first suspect was a really bad MIC infection, but that's not it. What we think we have is situation where the threads were not cut correctly or where arm-over and drop piping wasn't correctly made into the T.I. ready shell system branch outlets. The owner has hired a metallurgist to do all sorts of analysis on the piping and one of the things we want to do is torque test some of the samples to determine whether they're made in correctly. But we need a benchmark: I know that there are different training methods for piping installation and that making pipe in 4 or 5 turns by hand and then a certain number of turns by wrench is one of the metrics that has been widely used over the last few years. But we have not been able to ascertain whether or not there's ever been a torque load value established for making in threads. Can anyone help me find publishe d standards of care and practice for threaded piping make-ups in terms of torque or turns?
Thanks in advance, Steve Leyton Protection Design & Consulting San Diego, CA _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list Sprinklerforum@lists.firesprinkler.org http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
