engineering note - Spaled

[EIT231]

read a note on a detail sheet and it was new to me -
"electrical or plumbing conduit shall be spaled"

The detail was pipe in concrete beam - any ideas - piping and conduit requirements found in representative sections of specifications -
thanks in advance

 

[msquared48]

Probably a note meaning to provide a sleeve for the pipes through the concrete. An old shipbuilding term, but pertaining more to wood.

How old are the drawings, what is the nature of the building, and what is the background of the designer?

Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)

 

[EIT231]

I should have mentioned it was a detail depicting a 90 bend and the drawings are new - this week - how would one sleeve a 2in or 3 inch 90 in a 12-inch beam? very odd note - never seen it before. we use PVC conduit and waste piping all the time but I am guessing this would be a very large sleeve to get a 2 inch or larger 90 to feed through it... and i guess "dead nuts" placement to get 2-inch cover on sides at top exit if we can place an 8-inch 90 first...I have not yet done the math to see what actually would fit for sleeves - thanks for the response -

 

[JStephen]

"spaced", "sealed", "supplied", "spiraled", any of those make sense?

Just this last week, I saw a drawing that called for "stainless steel bolt holes".

 

[manstrom]

My money is on "spaced"

As a drafter I once sent out a construction set with "FLAMING PLANS" in the 200 series. I didn't catch it until we printed 7 sets. No one noticed but me.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

 

[steellion]

Splayed?

 

[GregLocock]

I think there is a meaning that might make more sense in contect, in shipbuilding a spale is a cross beam, so it may merely mean that conduits need to be supported along their length.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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[racookpe1978]

I think it is jest a mis-spalled word. 8<)

 

[msquared48]

Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)