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i am a union pipefitter. i have worked in some very bad places. i once was standing in the dry well in a nuclear plant in Spain . the portugese maintenance crew was rigging a 20 ton steel containment door and lost it. i was gathering valves from a crate and found the one i needed. once i found the one that i needed i took two steps and the wall fell blowing my eardrums out and throwing me from my feet cruhing the crate i was searching through. wake up call. 21 yrs old away from home in spain and 3 feet from my life ending....scary. after that i came home and took a job in a oil yard where a valve crew opened up the wrong valve during a movement letting 20000 gallons of gas a minute out of an open line that we were welding on. this was the biggest fire i have ever seen and the scariest moment of my life. made me think twice about wher i was working.
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What is the meaning of TOE in pipe fitting?
Threaded On End
What is the fabricated pipe and pipe-fitting industry dependent on?
The U.S. fabricated pipe and pipe-fitting industry is strongly dependent on the health of the domestic construction industry, which, after enduring rough economic conditions in the late 1980s and early 1990s, rebounded in the mid-1990s.
What is the difference between schedule and class?
schedule is the thickness of the pipe and class is pressure/temperature rating of a fitting or pipe
How can you tell if a pipe fitting is cast or ductile iron?
Hit it with a sledge hammer.
Is it required to have a dielectric fitting between brass valve and black steel pipe?
No
