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Frustum, Step-Box and Chimney?

05/17/2015 6:26 AM

Hi,

I am working out to make detail cost estimate for transmission lines.

It would be quite helpful if I could get help in understanding what is frustum, stepbox, chimney of RCC and formboxes. (40 mm aggregate).

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Re: Frustum, Step-box and Chimney ...??

05/17/2015 8:27 AM

When you do not understand a concept it is usually better to provide more information than less for a good clarification. Packing all of your uncertainties into one sentence is grammatically correct but it does not provide enough clues for a clear identification of the terms.

"Frustum, stepbox, chimney" are different three dimensional shapes. "RCC" is an undefined acronym also known as jargon that could identify a two pole passive filter topology or it could just be a company name. (RCC happens to be the initials of my late father, too.) Formboxes seems to be a self evident word mash up, typographic error of two words that should be separated by a space. Now how moderately coarse 40 mm aggregate stone(?) often used to make a structural foundation apples to this collective conundrum is anybodies guess.

Eschew obfuscation.

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Re: Frustum, Step-box and Chimney ...??

05/17/2015 10:48 AM

Google helps the helpless.

Try it.

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Re: Frustum, Step-box and Chimney ...??

05/17/2015 11:49 AM

If you have to ask those questions then you are not qualified to do the job. By posting anonymously you are telling us that you have taken on a project that is way beyond your capabilities and you are hiding this fact from your employer/client. CR4 is not a free consulting site for the clueless. Free consulting is available at the bottom of the ravine where your transmission line is going to end up.

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Re: Frustum, Step-box and Chimney ...??

05/17/2015 2:52 PM

This might help....

"In geometry, a frustum[1] (plural: frusta or frustums) is the portion of a solid (normally a cone or pyramid) that lies between two parallel planes cutting it. A right frustum is a parallel truncation of a right pyramid.[1]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frustum

Reinforced concrete chimney...

http://www.performancepanels.com/concrete-form-panels

http://payyavoorcrushers.com/products.php

http://www.slideshare.net/atulkumarengineer/is4562000

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Re: Frustum, Step-Box and Chimney?

05/17/2015 11:29 PM

Let's see; is that transmission on a Ford,Chevy,Chrysler,Nissan,Honda,Toyota or Land Rover?

Is it a THD 350,or a 400?

OH!.Not that kind of transmission?

Why didn't you say so.

Perhaps you mean telegraph,telephone,or television?

I'm sorry my crystal ball is not working very well today.

It probably needs cleaning.

I just can't seem to divine enough information from your post.

Think real hard about the problem, and maybe it will come through on my psychic rabbit ears that I have attached to my crystal bal to improve psychic reception.

While you are at it,think real hard about getting some professional qualified help to do the job.

Good luck!

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Re: Frustum, Step-Box and Chimney?

05/18/2015 12:16 AM

Why bother with details for making cost estimates? Just add 50% as "I dont know what else it could be charge".

This would be the envelope you later can put all costs in that emerge due to "nobody having a clue out of pocket expenses on the job". Customers are not that fuzzy they will pay it - unless they have a clue.

My advice: be smarter than the rest of us and also than your client. Only that pays in the long run.

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Re: Frustum, Step-Box and Chimney?

05/18/2015 2:54 AM

RCC = Roman Catholic Church, this is a religious question regarding Altar design

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Re: Frustum, Step-Box and Chimney?

05/18/2015 3:18 AM

All these relate to the creation of suitable foundations for your transmission towers or poles.

Talk to other people and get a range of prices on an average of $X per Metre for your area of the world.

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