Martin Staffa wrote:
> The engineer designed the bolts , if they fail and someone gets
> hurt or fatally injured they can be sued and held liable maybe even
> criminally negligent.Would they take that chance.Martin N1KGP
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as I said before, this is dredging up memories from about 5 yrs of
inspecting sign foundations, erections, etc. I do know that our PEs -
if challenged by the PE for the sign company, would simply require the
sign company to pay N$$ additional "bond" or whatever that is called
and it would go into a 25yr escrow and sit there earning no interest,
etc. Most clients of sign companies would end up getting another sign
company with a better/more agreeable PE and cut their losses.
also, I simply do not remember those 2 and 3" and larger j bolts being
galvanized. seems to me that was verboten for some reason. the j
bolts were oiled to prevent rust and I remember many a time having to
wipe the stuff off my hands and clothes while measuring the things
along with the pitch of the threads and the markings on the nuts.
that was a bad 5 yr period of my life... and then I became a computer
database developer/systems analyst... .. <G>
enuff
chas
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