Code, Standard, Specification, Recommended Practice — Four Words Nobody Defined For You
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A graduate joins a piping group. Two things happen in the first fortnight.
He is handed ASME B31.3 and told "follow the code", so he treats every sentence in it as law — including the appendices, including…
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