Re: What is Parallel?

From: <DAVIS>
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 13:56:00 EST

Ha Ha Paul. But of course, the question was regarding flanges, not gaskets. Hey, come to the mountain-top and ask me a gasket question, anything. I'll answer as soon as I'm done meditating....ohmmmm.

• Original Message ----- From: Paul Bowers To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] What is Parallel?

   Shouldn't someone with a screen name of "gasket_guru" know this already?

   Just a cheap joke,

   Paul

> From: gasket_guru

> When preparing to bolt up a gasket between two flanges, if a
> pipefitter were to say the flanges were "out of parallel", what
> exactly would he mean by this?
>
> Would he mean:
>
> A. Each flange face is flat, but relative to the mating flange, the
> sealing surfaces are not pareallel to EACH OTHER, or
>
> B. The sealing surface of each flange itself is not flat, but "wavy"
> or "warped", or
>
> C. Something comletely different.
>
> Finally...are there any ASME spec's regarding allowances or
> tolerances for A. or B.
>
> Regards,
>
> Davis

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Fri Jan 23 13:56:00 2004