Re: 90.08 degree elbow?

I love these type of stories. Feel free to send more, changing or omitting names to protect the guilty.

Paul

• Original Message ----- From: "Al" To: <PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:16 PM Subject: RE: [PipingDesign] 90.08 degree elbow?

> i'm sure theres lots of such stories, with no budget I checked some
pipeline
> drawings submitted for analysis and found the pipeline (per the dwgs)
missed
> the station it was supposed to enter by 567m.. they were told the
pipeline
> had to end at the meter station, so it did by the lines just not by
the
> numbers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve McKenzie
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 4:30 PM
> To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=fulkaxNvPjuLiPuqYwL33whV3UTXABU8eUXITGtFdr7JYi4oBL7OqLqLcWQW6Y-y1HEkTPHWqC_XfC2FCSn1kByjld36Eug">PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com</a>
> Subject: RE: [PipingDesign] 90.08 degree elbow?
>
> Reminds me of one of my favourites.
>
> I was designing a pump station in Manila a few years back. The station
> had to fit between an existing street and an existing 500,000m^3
> reservoir ; a very tight fit. The CAD guys produced a beautiful layout
> that looked too good to be true. I took them to site to check measure,
> and the reservoir was 3m closer to the road than on their drawings.
> When questioned as to how this happened, they said they were having
> difficulty getting the pump station to fit, so they "moved" the
> reservoir on paper. And they couldn't understand why smoke was coming
> out of my ears.
Received on Fri Sep 17 20:00:00 2004