To: Zetman
a cracked structural beam I heard it was due to inferior steel from China.
I don't know if that's true, but it wouldn't surprise me. My mind just went blank as to all the problems with goods from China in the past several years. Melamine in dog food...
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
After scrap/salvage merchants took what parts they wanted from the clunker cars, the remainder was ground up - and shipped to China - so they can make stuff and send it back to us!
7 posted on
11/02/2009 11:14:24 AM PST by
maica
(Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
How do you explain the other bridge failing in the 60’s killing 46 people? Those I beams come in a set of eight. If one fails they risk taking all of them At once. THAT IS WHY THEY ARE REPLACING THIS BRIDGE AND IT IS ALSO WHY THEY WATCH IT SO CLOSE.
16 posted on
11/02/2009 1:55:44 PM PST by
Domangart
(editor and publisher)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
It wasn’t a cracked beam, it was an eye-pinned tensor rod that probably got damaged in the ‘89 quake.
The supposed repair of that tensor failed due to poor design. Actually, the tensor itself has not failed, and even if it did, there are three others there to take up the load. IOW, the repair is mostly BS.
20 posted on
11/02/2009 4:15:37 PM PST by
editor-surveyor
(The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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