NEAFC 32nd Annual Conference.pdf - New England Association of ...

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CHI~I~ WELv.s: But, you do agree that vending is important?
MR. JOHNSON: Vending is o£ supreme importance, and, recently, in Massachusetts,
you have adopted the NFPA pamphlet 52, which outlines, vending
requirements, and that is something that I am..very happy about, as is the
rest o£ the industry, and, presumably you people, because it gives us all something
to look at and to go by, whereas before we were running at loose ends,
on vending.
I wouldn’t say that that writing in pamphlet 52 will immediately bring
to a screeching halt all of the violations in Massachusetts, or the balance o£
New England, but it will help.
We are intensely interested in proper vending, and, incidentally, that is
one o£ the most difficult operations to persuade a customer to indulge in, largely
£rom the standpoint o£ money. But, we £eel that it is extremel[ important,
and we press £or vending, and in many cases will not install.
That, at the moment, is £ruitless; but, I think that in the £uture, it will
start to help, and the rest ot~ the people in the industry will £ollow.
2~i GENTLE!vIA:N: I might say, in connection with that, that whenever
they discover that they are already installed and somebody has added to it,
they find a violation and they are decent enough to report it, and let us catch
up with them. ~ That is a fine thing, and it is. fine cooperation that you have.
Mm JohNson: Thank you very much. That is Utility Gases, speaking.
A G~TL~.~aa~: No; I am talking about bottled gas.
Mm Jo~soN: I am sorry.
A GEl~vLF~aa~: We don’t have utility gas all over, in pipes. When the
installer finds that something has been brought down and has; gone wrong,
they go down to fix it, and find it is wrong, and they let us know and we get
it fixed. --
MR. JOHNSON: I am certainly glad that you do that. We try to encourage
that. We also do a great deal o£ training. We hold £our or five one-week
schools a year, in field training, towards this end that we have been discussing.
CHIE~ ABacas: Is there any way that observers might employ to determine
whether or not installations, were provided with a spring-loaded release, or
otherwise?
MR. JoHNson: Yes. The spring-loaded release on a cylinder will appear
on the cylinder valve, directly at the inlet of the valve. It is a round
disc and it looks like the end o£ a pipe, usually with a seal, holding the screw
disc in position. There are holes in it and you can see a spring underneath.
That would be a spring-loaded release valve, in the cylinder plug.
The t~usible plug may be £ound in the box o£ the cylinder, on top. In the
case of some cylinders that don’t have casts, but have a recessed top, you will
find them spotted around the top, maybe as many as six. You will also find
them screwed into the bottom of the cylinder.
Many will have both. Some models out ,.h_ave a spring-loaded and a £usible
plug screwed into the thing. ~. :..-~ ....
.... ~_VJ!~F Aoa~s: Are they both visible, with the hood down?
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