To Paint - or Not To Paint: That is the Question
To Paint - or Not To Paint: That is the Question
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Just wondering, given the very diverse geographical composition of the Eng-Tips site, if your area of the world/country paints or doesn't paint W-beam guardrails. On the road here (South Sulawesi, Indonesia), they paint them black and yellow alternating stripes - I find it much harder to see at night (country mountain roads) than if the rails were just left galvanized. Plus, when you paint the rails, you add on a large cost of maintenance painting. When I was in India, they wanted to paint the kerbs as well - all 125 klicks of them. Arrg Please respond as "yes or no" and location - then comments.





RE: To Paint - or Not To Paint: That is the Question
It's "Curbs" here.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Motto: KISS
Motivation: Don't ask
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RE: To Paint - or Not To Paint: That is the Question
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Motto: KISS
Motivation: Don't ask
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Oh, and it's KERB when not in the colonies.
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Then there is Checkerboard Curve, in Millerton, NY:
http://tinyurl.com/32f8ahl (Links to Google Streetview)
"...students of traffic are beginning to realize the false economy of mechanically controlled traffic, and hand work by trained officers will again prevail." - Wm. Phelps Eno, ca. 1928
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Well it's a good job there's something backing up those arrow signs, which aren't very apparent in the view in the link.
You fellas need chevrons...chevrons with big yellow borders...
http://www.glasdon.com/Product_Images.aspx?pID=369
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Talk about hard to see at night in the mountains, that weathering steel is hard to see! Add to that the lines scraped off by plows, or covered with sand, and reflectors covered with road grime, and you have some fun driving conditions.
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Galvanized guard rail, unpainted curb here in the south east.
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Just adds to the richness of our language, to be able to curb our enthusiasm whilst kicking someone to the kerb.
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If you go to other parts of Indonesia, especially in Java Island, you will find that
- all guard rails are galvanized only, without any paint
- in big cities,most curbs are painted black
and white, especially during commemoration of
independence day.