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Hi I'm Eddie Lowe with McWane Ductile. Sales representative for South Carolina

and East Georgia. You're probably wondering what this guy is doing over

here right? Well he's actually demonstrating how many and where

restrained joints could be in your ductile iron pipe line. Welcome to this edition of Iron Strong.

What are you doing? Keep wiggling I got some more explaining to do here.

<sighs> Good help is hard to find. Based on the simple things known about

your pipe line such as size of pipe, depth of cover, design pressure, trench

type, soil conditions, plus the single most important contributor is what type

of fitting is involved? Why because fittings are a quick change

in pipeline direction which means the water inside follows that same change in

direction. Change in flow direction creates a force that wants to separate

the fitting and some number of joints on either side of it much like the force

you feel riding a roller coaster downward with a quick turn to the left

your body starts going to the right but the bar you're holding on to with the

death grip prevents it that's what restrained joints do for a pipe line.

Everywhere you see this rope being anything other than straight is what we

call the wiggle zone. If this rope for a pipeline every joint in the wiggle zone

is prone to separate.

In this case based on the design variables we listed

earlier the wiggle zone is 85 feet long.

So every joint in this area needs to be secure,

between the marks by using restrain joint pipe or restraining

gaskets in standard ductile iron pipe

85 feet divided by 18 the nominal cast length of our pipe equals 4.72 pieces.

Which means the last five pipe in and the first five pipe out

of the fitting must be restrained. The wiggle works both ways coming and going

and don't forget both sides of the fitting must be restrained as well. You

can find out more in the Iron Strong blog. So there you go we've answered the

how many and where questions for restrain joints on a single fitting to

do this quickly for all fittings in your pipeline go to the McWane Pocket

Engineer thanks for watching this episode of iron strong for more

information on all things ductile please visit our web site or contact one of our

product engineers until next time remember to work hard work smart and work safe.

For more infomation >> When Should You Use Restrained Joint Pipe? - Duration: 2:47.

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Episode 39: What do I say when someone asks 'Who told you?' - Duration: 1:55.

'Who told you?' That's a question that people often get asked when they raise

an issue with someone that someone else has reported to them that they've not

seen themselves. I've got three tips that will help you address that question.

Often you might find yourself having to have a difficult conversation about an

issue you've not actually witnessed yourself. Someone from your team has come

and reported something to you, maybe several people have, and it's part of

your responsibility to tackle that. When we do, people often ask that question 'who

told you?' and that they really need to know. Here are three ways you can handle

it. Tip one is if the person was happy for

you to share their name and you feel it's not inappropriate, then you can say

who told them as long as you've got permission for it. The second way you can

handle it is you can tell the person asking you that you were told in

confidence and that the person doesn't want to be named and you would do the

same if it was them reporting an issue in confidence. The third tip is you can

say to them: the issue we're talking about is not who told me, the issue is...

and then whatever the issue is. You want to end the conversation about who told

you as quickly as possible because it can distract you and the other person

from dealing with the real issue and that can lead to an unsuccessful

difficult conversation. If you find yourself in that situation, give it a go

and let me know. And remember you can get these top tips every week directly into

your inbox by signing up at ukheadsup.com/headsuptv and if

you've got a question for me then ask me at ukheadsup.com/asksonia