Ron, You've got it right, except we get 12 senators instead of 2 by special dispensation.
Do I smell road trip? T At 05:33 PM 12/5/2009, you wrote: >Tom, > >When you say loony bin are you talking about guests, construction (as >you've just brought up) or both? Next year AFSA is going to be in >Rhode Island. That's close to Massachusetts, right? And both are like >counties, like of New England State, right? }:-)> > >On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Tom Duross <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ron: > > If you're ever up (or over) this way, check out the Fernald State School in > > Waltham, MA. It's a loony bin. It's where James Taylor wrote "Fire and > > Rain". 12" ductile, 2 1500 GPM pumps, all grooved and flanged, the whole > > room is 12" ductile; huge, heavy and high in the air. Oh, and all > > belowground, a bunker with 20' ceilings, built during the cold war era. > > Tom > > > > > > Steve, > > > > Good to know. Are they expecting the pump to be merely ductile or are > > they requiring one of those impossible to find at a price that won't > > break the Bank of Dubai pumps listed for per AWWA and UL?FM. Just had > > that come up on a private pump for a college campus where the EOR said > > it had to meet both criteria because there were fire lines off the > > dual duty loop. He was finally convinced that that loop for this small > > city sized campus was similar to a municipal loop and so the pump > > didn't need to rated for fire service. Then on the on-campus the high > > rises that needed booster pumps anyways and were off dedicated lines > > attached to the loop the pumps were UL/FM listed. My favorite Navy > > backflow install entailed a six inch riser splitting into a six inch > > bulk main and a four inch bulk main at about thirty feet off the > > floor. On the four in main (remember this is after the split) there is > > a four inch RPBA (remember thirty feet off the ground) installed with > > mega-lugs and rodding (guess what kind of contractor got that bid) and > > it's all over some machinery for a certain type of weapons testing > > (wish I could supply a photo but it's one of those have a camera and > > go to jail forever places). I pointed this out to the Navy Fire > > Department inspector years ago. This was years ago and hopefully it > > went to whomever is responsible (maybe the NAVFAC) and it's been > > corrected by now. Same building had the overhead crane grounded to the > > sprinkler system. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sprinklerforum mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > > > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > > > > To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] > > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > > > > > >-- >Ron Greenman >Instructor >Fire Protection Engineering >Bates Technical College >Tacoma, WA > >Member: >SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA AFAA, WSAFM >_______________________________________________ >Sprinklerforum mailing list >[email protected] >http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > >For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > >To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] >(Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut www.fpdc.com 860.535.2080 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
