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Originally Posted by gmonde
hey dont feel bad,at the maple grove divisional during tech inspection i had two nhra tech guys under the hood (fingers pointing,arms motioning,gestures going) finaly i said ok whats the problem??? they said you cant run a accumulator in stock !!!!!! note two tech guys,my first thought was they changed the rule yesterday ,so i eased into the issue by responding , yeh its legal unless you guys changed it yesterday?? its in the rule book!!!!,,tech guys response ,,show me ??? ,, response,,i dont have the book on me ,,,he whips one out from his pocket and hands it to me ,,, i thumb to the page and we read it in harmony ,, his response was i didnt know it was allowed in stock ,,but he did swing by the trailer later and apologized and said he was not thinking clearly ,he knew it was legal after the situation accured just had alot going on ,,, but you need to read the book ,be ready to go up againts these guy ,,they are human and the racers know there class ,whats legal and whats not gmonde
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Good advice, NHRA Techs are Human and falliable, and well, there is a LOT across a LOT of different classes that I am sure anyone of us would get jumbled in our head from time to time. Most only run 1 or 2 classes, the Techs have to know ALL Classes....
When I was a plumber/pipefitter we went to a "State Unified" code, moving away from all the municipal codes and everything changed I only learned the new, but many established and intelligent inspectors would say "No, no saddle valves not allowed" while pointint to them on some add on humidifiers of a commercial install. My answer would go something like "Yeah, I think Akron had that code, I heard that, this state unified code is so confusing, even to me, see look, now THEY decided its ok to use on non-potable water, can you believe that ? But see....look....(while pulling and thumbing to the section) and look isnt that stupid ? but it says you can do it, and the guys we had here were from local xxx on travel cards..." But It didnt make the inspector feel like a dumbass, and it didnt put him down, meantime he learned something in a non-confrontational way.
People wanted to know why I was the youngest Journeyman pipefitter in 219....It was because I never had 1 single item fail on numerous large commercial builds.....but more importantly that was because I never pissed and inspector off
