This is safety satire on a Friday afternoon after a long week!
I may not be a Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) or a Visual Level II inspector certified per ASME V Supplemental NDE Certification requirements. Still, I believe API 570, Section 8 Repairs, Alterations, and Rerating of Piping Systems allows only a dozen or fewer radiator hose clamps in repair specifications. I may be slightly off, so I am open to hearing feedback on this arrangement.
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When ASME B31.3 cannot be followed because of its new construction coverage (such as revised or new material specifications, inspection requirements, certain heat treatments, and pressure tests), the piping engineer or inspector shall be guided by API 570 in lieu of strict conformity to ASME B31.3. As an example of intent, the phrase “principles of ASME B31.3” has been employed in API 570, rather than “in accordance with ASME B31.3.” … Temporary repairs of locally thinned sections or circumferential linear defects may be made on-stream by installing a properly designed and applied enclosure (e.g. bolted clamp, nonmetallic composite wrap, metallic and epoxy wraps, or other non-welded applied temporary repair). |
This AIN’T it!!!!!