[TheForge] Re: TheForge - Gas Dangers

[Smoky Rick]

There are reasons for the distance, etc.  In the town I work in, just a block away from where I work, there was a building burned down last fall.  The idiots had a gas main in an area where fork lift trucks were driving.  Of course, it was only a matter of time.  One of them hit it and it burned the place to the ground.  A warehouse for a local printer.  Magazine storage warehouse.  It burned for about 2 months on and off.  The firetrucks quit coming around after the first 2 days.  They are busting up the concrete floors now, and last week there was more stuff burning.  The fire was last fall, and there is still stuff smoldering enough to light itself on fire!  I was shocked.


Smoky Rick Crawford

If you think you can, or if you think you can't
you're probably right.

I'd feel a lot better about justice being
blind, if the guide dogs weren't all lawyers.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David E. Smucker 
  To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 57, Issue 18


  Typical in house pressure is 6 to 7 inches of water.  Delivery pressure varies but might be 5 to 10 psi.  Most commerical would be the same.  Industrial pressure on the other hand, can be much higher.

  I don't know what it is now but when we lived in the Pittsburgh area in the 1970's the local delivery pressure was much higher and we had storage wells in the area.  I don't remember for sure but think it was around 100 psi.  In that area gas meters and the regulator had to be located 50 feet from the house because of the high delivery pressure.  Pressure in the house was still in the 6 to 7 inches of water.

  Dave


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