Engineering pun!

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

What is a hot tap? 

Hot tapping is when you drill into a pipeline with live gas (or whatever process fluid) in the pipe. We do it when we can't interrupt service to core customers, but you need to bypass the gas flow to do other maintenance downstream. It's kind of a pain, but really fun to say during conference calls.

https://youtu.be/nFEsa0fxTMU

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Also, do you tape squares, or are you an extrusion of a square, with a taper? I've been wondering this for more than a minute. 

Haha! The square taper bottom bracket is the height of bicycle bottom bracket design and a really elegant engineering solution. I use it as an example of how anything that comes after is an example of over-engineering and/or planned obsolescence.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

Some reactors and sources get wrapped in "breeding blankets"