Ten Questions With … Kenny Whitson

In each issue of Working Pressure, we ask 10 questions to a training coordinator or instructor of an ASSE-approved training provider. Some questions are...

4 Inch Deringer Model 40

Question: I have a 4” Deringer Model 40. Can you tell me how to change the rubber parts for the checks and relief valve? Are...

Backflow Quiz

According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...

We’re Getting There

Happy fourth quarter of 2020. For those of you who have been wishing that this unusual and challenging year would just end … well,...

The Ever-changing Backflow Industry

The focus of this issue of Working Pressure is “New Technology." In the backflow industry, changes occur all the time. Existing product standards are...

Training, Legionella

Our world has changed so much in the last few months. It feels more like a decade than a matter of four months. Fortunately,...

Random Tech & Backflow

According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...

Ten Questions With … Jerry Schmitt

In each issue of Working Pressure, we ask 10 questions to a training coordinator or instructor of an ASSE-approved training provider. Some questions are...

1 Inch FEBCO 860

Question: I have a 1” Febco model 860 reduced pressure principal assembly that is dripping from the relief valve and needs to be repaired. Can...

Reverse Osmosis Water Efficiency

ASSE International recently published ASSE 1086, Performance Requirements for Reverse Osmosis Water Efficiency – Drinking Water. The standard was developed in response to the...