Steel Templates?

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hien.nguyenquoc Power-User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: BH, Vietnam Posts: 435 Good Answers: 1	Steel Templates? 06/09/2011 5:09 AM
	When we install equipments like a storage tank on to the concrete foundation, one normally uses a steel template. Could anyone please explain what is the function of the template, e.g. steel template? What would be wrong if we do not use it and why we should have this template? Thank you, __________________ Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong
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ozzb Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Rosedale, Maryland USA Posts: 5197 Good Answers: 266	#1 Re: Template??? 06/09/2011 7:32 AM
	A template is noting but a pattern. In your case on how to install some equipment. In why it steel. Maybe so it doesn't wear out so readily. On whether you can discard it's use we would need more specific information on what being done. They didn't go through the trouble of producing the template for no reason at all. __________________ Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty, pristine body but rather to come sliding in sideways, all used up and exclaiming, "Wow, what a ride!"
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WJMFIRE Guru Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA, Florida Posts: 1595 Good Answers: 125	#2 Re: Steel Templates? 06/09/2011 2:10 PM
	You said "one normally uses a steel template". No, one doesn't. One normally locates the equipment onto anchor bolts which have been installed in a concrete pour for the slab, the location, size, and embed depth of which are taken from Engineered drawings for the system. __________________ An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Steel Templates? 06/10/2011 12:28 AM
	There is a fair chance that such bolts will be located by using a template, which may be as simple as a sheet of plywood. If drilling holes in concrete foundations after placement, a template will help keep the bit from drifting off location. __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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