RCM only

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:28:16 -0500, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:

It also looks like a thin wall pipe. Pipe welders out there ?

It probably is. Gas runs at very low pressures of a few PSI in the
home, in the teens and twenties in larger lines. I don't recall where
I read that...OK, this one says 200-1,500psi in the mains.

http://www.aga.org/Kc/aboutnaturalga...verySystem.htm
I guess I was misled earlier.


Running close to the surface ??? and Garden/lawn chemicals may have
eaten the outside in. Ground water a problem ?

Reported smelling for days before

That's the bad part. They didn't catch it before it blew.



- maybe hydrogen in the pipe that
softened the steel into a sponge. Internal destruction from gases.

I'm interested in seeing a closeup of the inside and outside (and
welds) of the pipe.

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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins
when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in
order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
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