Re: Re: Hot Tapping

From: <Christopher>
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 11:41:00 EST

On Dec 14, 2005, at 10:15 AM, George McKinney wrote:

> Following up on your comments: hot tapping is usually a response to
> try and
> avoid shutting down a flowing line, to avoid disturbing a process.
I'm forced to admit that the thought of anyone cutting into a pressurized line makes my skin crawl. (The first time I ever heard the term I thought it was a put on…) That said, how do you clean up the inside surface of the root pass of the attachment weld? Or do you just try not to think about it?
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
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http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/ Received on Wed Dec 14 11:41:00 2005

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