Re: Piping Retirement Thickness info

From: <Christopher>
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 13:09:00 EDT

>Are there any standards defining piping retirement thickness? Or can
>everybody define its own? Thanks Steven
Two sets--

The plant production manager rule--
Retire it just before the line bursts. ;->

Scaredy-cat engineering rules--
Retire it when the wall thickness is reduced to the minimum allowed by code for your particular system, or if defects like cracks appear that would not be acceptable under Code rules for the system.

Plant maintenance rules--
Don't fix what ain't broke yet.

Christopher Wright P.E.    |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
chrisw@skypoint.com        | this distance"   (last words of Gen.
___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)
http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw Received on Tue Jun 15 13:09:00 2004

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Mon Oct 27 2008 - 20:24:01 EDT