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RFSOITTTION NO. 1449 <br /> <br /> A R~SOLUTION OF TW? BOARD OF TRUST~FS OF T~F C DT¥ 0f <br />SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING FOR ~ FORM 0F SP~CIFICATIONS <br />AND A STANDAPD SPECIFICATION FOR AII SEWER JOINT C0~P0~FND TO <br />BE USED IN ALI STR~WT WORK IN TMF CITY OF SANTA ANA. <br /> <br /> The Board <br />resolve as follows: <br /> <br /> SECTION I. <br /> <br />of Trustees of the City of ~snta Aha do <br /> <br />Tbst the fo]lowing set forth specifics- <br /> <br />tions shall be the standard specifications for Sewer Joint <br />Compound to be used in all street work in the City of Santa <br />Aaa, and shall be known as "Standard Specification No. 15", as <br />follows, to-wit: <br /> <br />STANDARD SPECIFICATION NUMBER 15. <br /> <br />Sewer Joint Compound. <br /> <br />SECTION 1. <br /> Where thc plans call for the usc of a sewer joint compound, the compound to be used <br /> shall meet~the following requirements: <br /> (a) The compound shall be so prepared that when heated to not less than two hundred <br /> fifty (250) degrees Fahrenheit and poured, it will adhere ~rmly to the surface of the <br /> pipe, or when heated to not less than three hundred fifty (350) degrees Fahrenheit and <br /> poured, it will adhere firmly to the surface of the pipe even though this surface shall be <br /> submerged in water below the springing line of the pipe. <br /> (b) The flexibility of the compound shall be such that after a pipe joint has been run <br /> and cooled, the pipe may be deflected at least five (5) degrees from line or grade, in which <br /> condition, the compound in the joint shall show no signs of cracking, checking or breaking <br /> away from the surface. <br /> (c) The melting point (Hubbard M~thod) shall be not less than seventy (~0) degrees <br /> Centigrade, (o~e hundred ~fty-eight (158) degrees Fahrenheit.) <br /> <br /> (d) The tensile strength at twenty-/~ve (25) degrees Centigrade, (seventy-seven (~7) <br /> degrees Fahrenheit) shall be not less than one hundred seventy.l~ve (175) pounds per square <br /> inch, and at forty (40) degrees Centigrade (one hundred four (104) degrees Fahrenheit) <br /> shall be not less than one hundred (100) pounds p~r square inch. The sample shall be pre- <br /> pared for test as follows: The compound shall be melted into sheet form, two (2) or thre~ <br /> (3) millimeters (about Cue-eighth (~) inch thick), and cut into squares of twenty-five <br /> millimeters (sue (1) inch). A broken Portland Cement standard neat briquette shall be <br /> heated to a temperature of between one hundred twenty (120) degrees Centigrade (two <br /> hundred forty-eight (228) de~rees Fahrenheit) and one hundred thirty-five (1~) degrees <br /> Centigrade, (two hundred seventy-five (275) degrees Fahrenheit), and its ends trued <br /> saturated with the compound. The squares previously prepared are then to <br /> between the trued e~ds of the briquette under a load et cae (1) kilogrom <br /> tenth (2.1) pounds, until cold, and the excess trimmed away. <br /> <br /> (e) Twenty-five-millimeter (one (1) inch) squar~ of the compound <br /> · scribed above, and submerged separately for thirty (10) days in sea water, <br /> ire ($) per cent solution o! caustic potash, ire (5) per cent solution of <br /> mtxtmre o/ Rye ($) pa, cent hydrochloric acid and tire (5) per cent <br /> <br /> I hereby certify that <br /> <br />duly and regularly passed by the Boar~ of Trustees of <br />o£ Santa A~s at a regular meeting thereof held on the <br /> <br />of March, <br /> <br /> Ayes, <br /> <br />the foregoing Resolution was <br /> the Cit <br /> 16th day <br /> <br />1925, by the followin~ vote: <br /> <br />Chapman, Oeo McWhee, E.B. <br />Purinton <br /> <br />Tubbs <br /> <br /> Trustees C.H. <br /> F.L. <br /> <br />Noes, mrusteee }lone <br /> <br />Absent, Trustees <br /> <br />Collier <br /> <br />Attest: E.L. Ve <br /> (SEA!) "Cl~rk <br /> <br /> <br />