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Subject:Re: Blank off From:Win Day <win -dot- day -at- FREENET -dot- TORONTO -dot- ON -dot- CA> Date:Fri, 30 Dec 1994 09:21:07 -0500
On Thu, 29 Dec 1994, Tricia Porter wrote:
> Have you seen "blank off," "blankoff," or "blank-off" used in technical
> publications writing about equipment? For example, "put a blank off on the
> pump intake," or "attach the blankoff fitting to the port."
If you mean what I think you mean, we used to call them "blind flanges"
If you mean what I _think_ you mean, we used to call them "blind flanges"
or just "blinds". I've never heard them referred to as "blank offs", and
I'm a chemical engineer by training (though a technical communicator by
choice!). But that's just my experience. Anyone else care to comment?
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