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Thrustblocks on Crowchild main

Speaking of thrust blocks and size I'm told we can be a little conservative.

That's not a specification, just another thing that contractors would rather be conservative on rather than risk a dreaded field work order. I noticed this rather large one where the bend fitting was only a few degrees.

But it doesn't matter what the engineering calcs say, no engineer in the whole city would disagree with a field call by an inspector. We back them up. Every time. The point isn't whether he was more conservative than an engineer: the point is that nobody questions one of our inspectors and gets away with it.

© Roy Brander, P.Eng 2003