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  1. bimr

    CT Corrosion

    Ed, Have you seen the numerous reports of stainless steel from the tesla cyber truck owners. Here is one today: https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cybertruck-becomes-extensively-corroded-after-exposed-magnet This doesn't appear to me to be a good application for stainless steel for...
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    RE: NFPA H-4 Occupancy Sprinkler requirements in a Water Treatment Facility

    thread184-492586 Think you have not received good advice I just saw you post and it is about a year old. NFPA doesn't have the same definitions as "corrosive", "toxic", etc. as OSHA's definition. Your sodium chloride application would not fall under the HF classification. A source of...
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    ID of P&ID symbols

    Does anyone know what the symbols "I/I", "KC", and "UA" and "LY" are on this P&ID? The legend doesn't call them out. This is pump station with 3 VFD pumps.
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    Alternative API Plan 32

    Wastewater application is for a new 10-Inch vertical propeller pump, 2600 gpm at 35'. Is there a better seal system than API Plan 32 for a pump that will be installed outdoors in northern freezing weather?
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    Construction worker received minor injuries in bridge demolition - Las Vegas

    Crews have been demolishing the southbound section of the Eastern Avenue overpass as part of the $40 million U.S. 95 viaduct replacement and retrofit work. Link
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    Georgetown Kentucky Wastewater Treatment Plant Structural Design Error

    Some “$5 to $6 million of concrete” has been poured at the site, but apparently there are concerns an engineering miscalculation may have resulted in the plant’s foundation thickness not strong enough to hold under certain conditions. GRW Engineering of Lexington, the company that provided...
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    Southern California Oil Spill

    As divers for Houston-based Amplify Energy Corp. on Sunday searched for the location and cause of the massive leak, public records revealed a pattern of changing ownership and compliance warnings for the company. Amplify had also been working to upgrade its aging infrastructure and had plans to...
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    Water Treatment Laboratory Corrosion

    Does anyone have an explanation for this corrosion? This application is a remodel of a water treatment laboratory. The equipment is all new. The trough sampling sinks are made from Gauge 316L-2B stainless steel. The other items like the drawer pulls and safety eyewash are 316 stainless steel...
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    PEMEX Pipeline Failure

    On Friday, an offshore oil pipeline connected to Pemex's Ku-Maloob-Zaap offshore platform complex ruptured and caused a giant fire in the Gulf of Mexico, according to Bloomberg. Pemex said the gas leak occurred at 5:15am local time in the submarine pipeline near Ku-Maloob-Zaap's Ku-C satellite...
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    300 Meter Chinese Building Starts to Shake

    The near 300-meter (980 ft) high SEG Plaza inexplicably began to shake at around 1pm, prompting an evacuation of people inside while pedestrians looked on open-mouthed from the streets outside. Link SEG Plaza is a skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. Completed in 2000 and located...
  11. bimr

    Laser Rust Removal

    Has anyone observed this laser rust removal tool? Link
  12. bimr

    Largest residential building in Gaza fails with airstrike

    Limited information available as to the size of the weapon and the design and construction of the building. However, it would seem that a building should be able to take more hits prior to failure.
  13. bimr

    Lake Mead Water Level to drop to historic lows

    Potential double whammy; Reduced water supply and power. The man-made lakes that store water supplying millions of people in the U.S. West and Mexico are projected to shrink to historic lows in the coming months, dropping to levels that could trigger the federal government’s first-ever official...
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    Construction Worker's Head Impaled by 5-Foot Steel Bar

    I guess they were lacking those orange rebar protection caps. Link to report
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    US Virgin Islands helicopter crash

    our people are dead in the U.S. Virgin Islands Monday after a helicopter crash, according to the Virgin Islands Emergency Management Agency. Calls to 911 about a chopper going down in the western end of the St. Thomas area of Botany Bay came in around 3:14 p.m. local time, according to...
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    Partial Collapse of Building Under Construction

    Two people were critically injured in a partial building collapse of a building under construction in suburban Chicago Illinois on Monday afternoon, December 28, 2020, Westmont village officials said. A spokesperson for the village said around 12:30 p.m. there was a partial collapse at a new...
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    Flying Fan Blades

    More than 190,000 ceiling fans recalled after blades fly off, hitting people King of Fans
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    Sisters Creek Bridge Walkway

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville family wants lights to be added to the new Sisters Creek Bridge after their loved one was killed in a bicycle accident. Brandy Harris said Chad Herrington, her 18-year-old brother, was riding his bike on Heckscher Drive the night after Thanksgiving when he...

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