Installing PC Steel Strand Connectors (Part 2) | Practical Guide

Hello, everyone.

This is Enta.

I'm staying at a ryokan near the site.

As a general rule, if it takes two hours to drive to a job site, we stay overnight.

The portions for dinner there are huge!

That's way too much!! I don't eat that much, though. lol

Once you're over 40, you don't eat that much anymore, do you?

Full

Of course I'll eat whatever's served!

I finished everything, but my stomach is so full now that I can't get any work done on the paperwork afterward lol

It was a painful worry, even though I was happy, lol.


But that's beside the point.

 

Following up on what I mentioned the other day, I've finished connecting one side.

Next up are the remaining four.

PC Steel Strand Coupler

Yeah. I did it!! lol

It looks like the yellow and the solid color are overlapping, but they're actually offset!

It's okay! lol

It's not really a big deal if they overlap a little, though.

It's simply to avoid placing unusual stress on the couplers and PC strands as much as possible.

What I mean is that I want to pull it as straight as possible.

 

Next, we’ll connect the upper PC strands, but,

To put it simply, what's important is...ConnectLength of PC StrandThat's it.

It's best to have at least the jack length plus 10 centimeters.

Measure from the shortest point of this coupling.

The length of the prestressing steel strand is the distance from that point to the support plate plus the length of the jack plus about 10 centimeters.

 

It was fine that we extended it, but since we don't have enough PC strands, we'll have to extend it again...

Well, I’ve made plenty of mistakes like that myself!!

What’s more, even though I’m writing all this in such a high-and-mighty way, I ended up cutting the PC wire without considering its length, and—

I used two couplers to extend it lol

Don't get overconfident!!

Even though I try to keep it in mind, I’ve been forgetting even the basics lately...

I forgot

Forgetting things is a good thing, but forgetting about work too? Haha...

That's why I'm writing this blog. It's just for my own reference!!

Make a note of this before you forget! But the day will come when you forget that note, too!

That's just a note about a note, lol.

 

See you later.

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