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Old 19-05-2008, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyH155 View Post
us Engineers do to secure pumps onto base plates. Use a minimum of 5 times as much concrete as the whole scope weighs (ie if it weighs say 50 kg, then use concrete 5 x 50 = 250 kg of concrete, or roughly 0.25 cubic metres (thats a cube of 630mm x630mm x 630mm.
The density of concrete is around 2.3g/cc, so 250kg of concrete takes up much less volume than 0.25 cubic metres - more like 0.1 cubic metres.....
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