Your thoughts on bonding this gas pipe

[uksparks]

Hi,

Nice easy one, I have a gas pipe, its metal, but painted, no supply to properly, its just capped, but live.

As for bonding, what would you do? Just sand some paint off and bung a clamp on it? That's my thoughts, whats yours? I know you are meant to only put it supply side, but there isn't one.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

If there is a leak it will catch fire and he can watch the little flame dancing in the breeze until he puts it out, not the most life threatening situation in the world.

As has been mentioned earlier, gas escaping under pressure will catch alight, gas which is relatively stationary and mixed with oxygen will explode.

this is what i was meaning...

 

[Meggerman]

then you`d smell it you div...

What if you were in the room with him, your odour would mask it completely.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

What if you were in the room with him, your odour would mask it completely.

grow up kid....lol..

 

[Meggerman]

grow up kid....lol..

lol..... divvy

 

[GLENNSPARK]

lol..... divvy

have a look through some of your past posts in here....

you might want to edit them...before the crowd comes in for a look around in the morning...

anyway, whats your issue with tony?..

i know who i`d be backing....

 

[davesparks]

Ok what i was meaning was still gas...

In the interest of being annoyingly pedantic I have to ask if a gas could ever actually be considered to be still?

Gases at 0K excluded of course

 

[Meggerman]

have a look through some of your past posts in here....

you might want to edit them...before the crowd comes in for a look around in the morning...

anyway, whats your issue with tony?..

i know who i`d be backing....

My issue with his suggestion, I have no issue with him. He does not know the condition of the pipe under the paint, nor is it a risk he can take. I am not going to edit it, it is my view and you have your view.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

My issue with his suggestion, I have no issue with him. He does not know the condition of the pipe under the paint, nor is it a risk he can take. I am not going to edit it, it is my view and you have your view.

OK thats fine.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

In the interest of being annoyingly pedantic I have to ask if a gas could ever actually be considered to be still?

Gases at 0K excluded of course

OK...pockets of gas then....lol...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

My issue with his suggestion, I have no issue with him. He does not know the condition of the pipe under the paint, nor is it a risk he can take. I am not going to edit it, it is my view and you have your view.

but as has already been pointed out (by myself & others)...a leak would menefest itself as a flame....nothing more....as long as pressure is maintained...

hence me reference to the drop test earlier on in this thread...

 

[Meggerman]

He would not of carried out a drop test though and would just be assuming the integrity..

 

[GLENNSPARK]

He would not of carried out a drop test though and would just be assuming the integrity..

trust me..there would be evidence that the pipework had been breached (smell)..or as we says...small flame...

 

[egg67]

After 8 bottles of black sheep and half a bottle JD the gas is not still and the wife has said I have got to sleep in the shed tonight as my leg is not bonded and I might blow the house up.
Think the best then to do is to get a meter fitted and then bound on new pipe, or just get paint of existing with a blade and fine sandpaper(P120)

 

[Geordie Spark]

No, its just a live supply in the event that someone wants it, there's never been a meter, I should perhaps tap off it into a boiler and a gas hob, just think, nobody would ever know!

YOU would know and you'd know very quickly!!

Between that valve on that pipe and the missing meter there should be a governor.

The gas pressure in that pipe can be something like 70 millibar and the (missing) governor reduces it to about 30 millibar before it enters the (missing) meter.

Connect that pipe straight to your boiler and gas hob and you'll never have to worry about another gas bill ever again - or anything else for that matter!

 

[Knobhead]

My issue with his suggestion, I have no issue with him. He does not know the condition of the pipe under the paint, nor is it a risk he can take. I am not going to edit it, it is my view and you have your view.

I think 35 years of working on HP gas systems gives me a bit of an insight. We burnt 600,000M³ or 6.8GW per day.

He would not of carried out a drop test though and would just be assuming the integrity..

No I wouldn’t do any such test simply because I know it can’t be done on a live system. Other methods are used.

Get back to me when you know what you are talking about.