Call to the construction site: - Sidorov, have you already laid the pipes in the trenches? - Yes, yesterday. - Then go to sleep immediately! - "As you say ...", Sidorov thought and, curled up, fell asleep in the trailer
Anecdote from the site- "anekdoty.ru"
Hello dear friend, I am glad to welcome you to my cozy channel, everything described below is based on my experience as a plumber.
In the late 90s, several teams arrived in our city to replace water supply and sewerage pipes. What's unusual? Ordinary brigades, of which there are enough to this day. But these brigades were specially trained. They exchanged iron and cast iron for plastic... Ie the first-borns when working with new polymer pipes in our city.
The pipe and fittings were Turkish gray. And in order to have the right to weld them, it was necessary to have a crust, for which we were sent to the capital of the region, to study.
So, in those days I wondered why the pipes were imported and the technology of socket welding from abroad. Couldn't the union have come up with it and promote it? Why did the locksmith continue to suffer with heavy cast iron for the sewage system and iron pipes for the water supply, which had to be welded by electric and gas welding.
It is curious, but already in the 70s, textbooks on plumbing described the huge advantages of polymer pipes over iron and cast iron.
There are disadvantages, but they are easily offset by the huge advantages.
Somehow, in our overhaul team, in the mid-2000s, a conversation about this topic started. Then the foreman of our "hop-team" was a man of retirement age, originally from Ukraine. Here's what he told us - in his homeland, already in the 80s, pipes made of polyethylene were laid, then it seemed to them that the new technology would be spread throughout the Union. But this did not happen, for several simple reasons, here are his findings:
The Communist Party was not interested in the increased development of polymer products in the pipeline industry. In the granaries of the homeland there was a large amount of iron ore, the industry was sharpened for the production of metal pipes. And the new technology did not inspire confidence, and they did not want to reduce the rate of production of iron ore for the country's economy. Better to live in peace, the old fashioned way ...
Therefore, all the technologies for the production and installation of polymeric materials were available, but they did not really want to launch them into production. Why spoil the old, well-functioning, into the unknown and not honed...
So, the unwillingness to develop, to live in the old fashioned way, stops progress. In addition, in the 90s, the country began to collapse, and there you had to think about a piece of bread...
From SW. Timofey Mikhailov.