Yes, it's the temperature of the oven that is off. I do not understand why T166 says that the oven must be capable of maintain the standard 230 degrees F but in the oven method it says: dry overnight at 125 plus/minus 5 degress. This seems contradictory. Thanks for the responses- I really...
Thanks for your reply. Our specifier is not requiring an AASHTO/AMRL(former I know) certification on this test so sorry for the confusion. My question is if it is possible to rerun this test as the cores have water filling the air voids and I'm not sure the oven at ~130 degrees F will get the...
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I work for a small Geotech engineering firm and we are trying to determine the bulk specific gravity of some HMAC cores- using AASHTO T166. Our results failed the specs and we want to rerun because we basically rigged our own bucket on a scale using a sawhorse and have never done this...
