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Decades-old mistake may have caused bridge beam to fail
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^
| January 23, 2017
| Jason Laughlin
Posted on 01/24/2017 8:11:35 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You just put a bolt in it. Brilliantly simple solution.
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posted on
01/24/2017 9:25:53 PM PST
by
Crucial
To: MurrietaMadman
Shave signs were larger in your neck of the woods back in the day?
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posted on
01/24/2017 9:32:26 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: marktwain
It didn’t look like a Capital I beam...
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posted on
01/24/2017 9:34:05 PM PST
by
Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
In this case, more of an H Beam (Piper?)
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posted on
01/24/2017 9:41:27 PM PST
by
null and void
(Roses are red, soylent is green. Get to the shelter, it's 2017)
To: Paladin2
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
01/24/2017 9:46:51 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
To: null and void
Thanks, I see the H shape now.
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posted on
01/24/2017 9:47:21 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Unsettling because I drive a fully loaded 18 wheeler over that bridge at least once a week.
To: MurrietaMadman
I see the series length now.
Do not pass, On a Slope, Unless you have, A periscope, BS...
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posted on
01/24/2017 9:52:25 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: Paladin2
Yo!
Time to search Burma shave
To: Paladin2
I miss the Burma shave signs.
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posted on
01/24/2017 10:31:31 PM PST
by
Gator113
(I use liberal tears in my milkshake ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
01/24/2017 11:15:40 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
01/24/2017 11:16:28 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
To: Wilderness Conservative
That detour looks like a pain in the rear; this is a very busy bridge. Sadly, many of these older structures throughout this area are in need of maintenance or replacement but the money just isn’t there...
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posted on
01/25/2017 1:40:03 AM PST
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: kearnyirish2
195 to 295 to 95 or over the Betsy Ross or Burlington Bristol or some other nightmare. I told my dispatcher to send me DC to Boston runs until this is fixed.
To: null and void
I haz HAZ... Saw what you did there, I did. And the professor HAZ it exactly right that a properly hot-riveted plug would have been preferable. I'm doubtful they had a good understanding of the HAZ in the 50s since mobile radiographic inspection equipment was probably not available. I could be wrong about that, though.
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posted on
01/25/2017 2:23:20 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Wilderness Conservative
The detour graphic on the news (News 12 NJ) looked so far out of the way; hopefully there is much less traffic in general down there (as the population is less dense than up here between Newark and Jersey City).
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posted on
01/25/2017 3:38:58 AM PST
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: MurrietaMadman
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posted on
01/25/2017 4:48:28 AM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: Wilderness Conservative
“...unsettling...”
Although this is not as dramatic as your story; I was just on that bridge a couple of weeks ago driving our daughter to college in Philly.
Stay safe out there!
To: Flick Lives
The plugs are along the transverse line rather then through the side. I don’t see how holes could be drilled several feet into the end of the member and then plug welded
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posted on
01/25/2017 5:41:10 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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