Stacking of gaskets has occured for two reasons mainly. The first being poor flange spacing so more gaskets were added to accomidate the opening. The other reason stacking of gaskets has occured is because maintenance forgot to take the old one off the flange prior to dropping a new one in the...
Has anyone had any incidences with stacking gaskets in a flange and failure occuring. I have seen this practice in the past with garlock type gaskets and I was just wondering if there was any bad experiences with this set up. Also, does anyone know of a ANSI or API doc that might cover this?
