Hey Guys,

I was checking a set of drawings a bit ago. I’m not a checker and don’t pretend to be one. Work was slow and it was chargeable. One of the things I marked up was tapped pipe caps and tapped blind flanges. On this project they used Flatolets on the blind flanges and sockolets on the pipe caps. I marked them up to use half couplings instead. I believe this is the better more economical option especially on the pipe caps (no grinding and extra welding). They refused to change them and got backing from the piping manager with no explanation other than couplings are too fancy and only used in refineries…..we use olets.

Please let me know what you guys would do and why. If I am right this could become the basis of a challenge for me in the future. I just need to be able to back it up.

HC