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Posted by on September 6, 2007, 12:52 am
> kjpro @ usenet.com wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't think so. A "slight" leak will generate an icicle.
> >
> >
> > And can cause a line blockage.
> > Anyway, it's against code!
>
> Goddamn it! Building codes specifically REQUIRE P&T valves to be vented
> outside
Bullshit, they are not required to be vented outside!!!!!
Matter of fact, it's against code to pipe them outside when they are subject
to freezing weather!
Now get a clue, dumbass!
> >> In the event the
> >> line IS blocked with ice, a let-loose pressure valve will blow the
> >> freakin' plug into the next county! Either that, or you'll have the
> >> nastiest pipe-bomb imaginable.
> >>
> >> T&P valves aren't designed to "leak" or "relieve excess pressure."
> >
> >
> > Whether their designed too or not, that doesn't mean it doesn't
> > happen. You've never saw one that was corroded because it had a slow
> > leak?
> > You're showing that you have no experience with PT valves.
>
> I agree they sometimes leak. Just like a water faucet sometimes leaks.
What
> makes you assume I've never seen a leaky one? How did you reach that
> conclusion?
You said they're not designed to leak. But in fact, many do...
> >> They are
> >> designed to simulate an SLV (Saturn Lauch Vehicle) by blowing all to
> >> hell. They don't tweet like a tea-pot, they go BOOM!
> >
> >
> > Design and "what happens in the field" is sometimes two completely
> > different things.
>
> Right. Sometimes fail-safe systems fail by failing to fail safe. Sometimes
> fail-safe systems fail because a cretin installed them - as in not venting
a
> P&T valve to the outside.
When are you going to read up on PT valves and learn that you are *not*
required to pipe them outside????
And that it's *against code* to do so, when they're subject to freezing
temperatures????
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