September 22, 2015

Deltaflex Backing Rings and Plate Steel Rings



Alamo Pipe now offers Deltaflex Backing Rings.

 Ductile Iron Backing Rings

  • 1/2″ thru 65″ IPS
  • 4″ thru 54″  DIPS
  • SDR Range from 7 to 52 depending on the size
  • Meets ASTM A536 Grade 65-45-12

Polypropylene Encapsulated (PPDI) Backing Rings

  • PPDI Backing Rings are an exclusive product
  • Tough chemical resistan convoluted rings for use when performance is on the line
  • Glass reinforced polypropylene with A536 ductile iron insert
  • Available 2″ thru 36″ SDR 13.5 and 2″ thru 30″ SDR 7

Stainless Steel Backing Rings

  • All stainless steel backing rings are made from 316 stainless steel and tested with a Niton Analyzer prior to shipment.
  • Available 1″ thru 63″ IPS and 4″ thru 48″ DIPS
  • Meets ASTM A351-CF8M (316)
  • Meets Requirements
  • Class 150, mates with ANSI B16.5 and AWWA C207

Alamo Pipe also carries Plate Steel Rings (IPS)

  • Material ASTM A36 plate steel with a 45 degree Chamfer/Radius
  • Available 2″ thru 54″
Contact Alamo Pipe for more information.
Thank you.

Alamo Pipe Inc.
El Paso, Texas

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

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