RE: New at Piping Design Central: Machinery Grouting

From: <Al>
Date: Sat Mar 06 2004 - 19:10:00 EST

dammit,
there goes my idea, "floating slab footings". Truly works for adjustable grout height. You just let the supports push the "floating" slab deeper into the thawing permafrost/pea soup soil. Come spring and "voila" overheight footings/supports "no problemo". Dont even need those expensive screw adjusting dummy legs, theyre just for dummies. They did this in italy and saved tons of "lire" by skipping the soil testing. More money left over for Beer and Pizza.

To straighten things up you just put heavy weights on the other side.(like the italy job)
The West Yarra Bridge in OZ just got carried away pouring concrete on the wrong side.
easy to explain the 2 times it didnt work properly. Operator error. al

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve McKenzie [mailto:mechproj@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 4:21 PM
To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [PipingDesign] New at Piping Design Central: Machinery Grouting

Paul

I did send crayons. You have eaten them again, havent you? That smile probably will have to be wiped off your face. I like your idea of 100' grouting margin. Would you recommend cementitious dry pack or not shrink epoxy. However it will probably impact on my new patented product called Neg(ative) Gro(ut), which is especially formulated for use on overheight footings. The primary active ingredient is 100% hydrofluoric acid. I am having a few government acceptance test problems; the lab rats keep dying and the scientists glasses keep dissolving. However a cigarette company has offered to help with the testing and can see no hazard.

Cheers

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bowers [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:22 AM
To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] New at Piping Design Central: Machinery Grouting

> > This reminded me of the old "Top of Concrete" vs. "Underside of
> > Baseplate" issue. T.O.C. used to be (and maybe still is) a common
> > abbreviation on engineering drawings. But top of concrete is not
> > important - what is important (for piping installations) is the
actual
> > elevation of the underside of the machinery's baseplate, because
> > levelling grout exists between the top of concrete and the underside
> of
> > baseplate. The thickness of the grout can vary. Anyone have any
> > additional comments on this?

Since Steve didn't send me the promised crayons, the following is only in black and white:

http://www.pipingdesign.com/drawings/plantdesign2.jpg http://www.pipingdesign.com/drawings/plantdesign1.jpg

Please also excuse the linework/writing. Since CAD I have lost all ability to be coherent without a computer.

Paul

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