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Welcome To pipe Locating
You have purchased some of the finest locating tools in the business, but they
don’t do magic. Your skill at handling these tools and recognizing their
strengths and weaknesses is what makes a locating job successful. Before
taking them out on their first job, make sure you understand how the system
works.
The following pages will take you through all the steps necessary to use your
equipment. We strongly recommend that you pay close attention to the section
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Getting to know your Tools
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, and come back to it whenever you are
confused about the responses you are seeing on actual locating jobs.
This advice applies whether you’re a rookie at pipe locating it’s easy to
outsmart yourself if you’re used to more complicated equipment and
procedures.
Please note: These instructions should be considered guidelines, not gospel.
Every locating job presents unique challenges, and although most will yield to
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textbook
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procedures as described here, many will require a creative
approach. We strongly advise that you familiarize yourself with the
fundamentals of analog locating described in the
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Getting to know your
Tools
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section. Armed with this knowledge, you will be able to reason your
way through most locating challenges.
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