On May 21, 1:11*pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:
On May 21, 5:21 am, "Pierre Levesque" wrote:

"TheRebarGuy" wrote in message

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I "heard" (so it may/may not be true) that a job one time was supposed to
use epoxy coated rebar, but the shop sent black (that is the term we use
for uncoated plain old rebar)) bar instead. The contractor didn't want to
wait for it to be refabbed, so he told the guys to go to paint store, get
a can of green paint, bring it back and coat the bars with that instead...

A contractor cutting corners to save time? *No way! *That's prepostorous!

While on the subject of metal, I had a beam-hanger
break on me the other day.
To service below my bathwoom floor, we have removable
2x4's 4 ft span set in beam hangers, then 1/2" plywood
on them covered by carpet. It's a good system because
the floor joists are easy to remove, to get them the hell
out of the way for easy access to service plumbing.
It's called a "Simpson Strong-Tie LU24L".

It might be my fault because I opened it about 60 degs
then closed and attached and may have fatigued it, it
broke at the bottom where it's bent 90 degs.
Ken

I'd like to see that, as I've never seen one bent-and then break
because of it.
It would have had to have been bent back and forth quite a bit to have
stressed to the breaking point.

I installed 64 HU28's and 8 HU28-2's yesterday and the only thing that
broke was the skin on the middle finger of my left hand as it crushed
between the edge of an HU28 and a 28oz Estwing waffle face. It made
for a really nifty red splash pattern on the ledger board.

(6) 16d's per hanger - do the math x 28oz.....yes my arm is warped
this morning........