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To: dennisw; Mr. Jeeves

Per the WSJ these were fabricated in Painesville, Ohio (near my old stomping ground of Cleveland) and the problem was hydrogen embrittlement due to faulty galvanizing.


25 posted on 03/31/2013 5:11:54 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: nascarnation

thanks! and acknowledgement


27 posted on 03/31/2013 5:14:33 PM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing--- Joe Pine)
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To: nascarnation

For those who slept thru metallurgy class....

http://corrosion-doctors.org/Forms-HIC/embrittlement.htm


28 posted on 03/31/2013 5:16:57 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: nascarnation

This is something you want to find out BEFORE you pour a few hundred yards of concrete around it...

That these wouldn’t have been tested before use, like a 10% sampling, is beyond belief...


30 posted on 03/31/2013 5:34:59 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: nascarnation

More here too.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/development/2013/03/bay-bridge-bolt-problem-arose-quality-control-lapses-officials-say


35 posted on 03/31/2013 10:12:56 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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