Rick Christ
Contributor
I have stopped hydro testing the Worthington's SP14157 and the 3AA galvanize. They are all failing, everyone of them.
The factory knows very well about this problem. Worthington is trying to skirt the problem. making it a warranty issue and throwing it onto the retesters and their customers. This needs to be a full recall issue. Worthington needs to pull all of these back in and do their own testing and stop trying to dump the problem on the retesters and Worthington customers.
Worthington tried to skirt the problem by putting out this tech bulletin saying we need to pre-stress the tank two times. That in its self is a dodge of the problem. The only other steel tank manufacture that has a pre-stress for their steel tank is PST (E9791) and they closed in 2005 because of that problem and it is the same as this problem with Worthingtons now. Taylor Wharton, Faber, Coyne, Asahi, Norris, etc. all of these steel tank manufactures do not have a special test protocol for their tanks. Asahi makes a galvanized tank and there is no pre-test and no problems testing them. They test very well with no pre-test.
Worthington has asked the DOT to change the test protocol from the expansion method to test by REE. Im not going to get into explaining the differents in that. But thats a dodge again from correcting the problem. I believe that DOT will change the test protocol for the SP14157, but I do not see how they can do much with the 3AA. Some experts (I have talked to some of my big dogs in the industry) in the hydro industry say that the 3AA can be changed. Time will tell?
To the lawyers on this board, you might want to look into a class action on this. Its time Worthington steeps up.
We have been working long, long hours for sport season, got to crash, will try to get back on SB later. Bye
The factory knows very well about this problem. Worthington is trying to skirt the problem. making it a warranty issue and throwing it onto the retesters and their customers. This needs to be a full recall issue. Worthington needs to pull all of these back in and do their own testing and stop trying to dump the problem on the retesters and Worthington customers.
Worthington tried to skirt the problem by putting out this tech bulletin saying we need to pre-stress the tank two times. That in its self is a dodge of the problem. The only other steel tank manufacture that has a pre-stress for their steel tank is PST (E9791) and they closed in 2005 because of that problem and it is the same as this problem with Worthingtons now. Taylor Wharton, Faber, Coyne, Asahi, Norris, etc. all of these steel tank manufactures do not have a special test protocol for their tanks. Asahi makes a galvanized tank and there is no pre-test and no problems testing them. They test very well with no pre-test.
Worthington has asked the DOT to change the test protocol from the expansion method to test by REE. Im not going to get into explaining the differents in that. But thats a dodge again from correcting the problem. I believe that DOT will change the test protocol for the SP14157, but I do not see how they can do much with the 3AA. Some experts (I have talked to some of my big dogs in the industry) in the hydro industry say that the 3AA can be changed. Time will tell?
To the lawyers on this board, you might want to look into a class action on this. Its time Worthington steeps up.
We have been working long, long hours for sport season, got to crash, will try to get back on SB later. Bye
