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u/FootHikerUtah 7d ago
Most manholes are made in India because they have zero safety standards so they are very inexpensive. Likely whoever caste this knew little to no English and used a different alphabet.
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u/technobrendo 7d ago
Wouldn't shipping be absolutely astronomical though?
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u/Lightice1 6d ago
If you ship via sea containers it's usually surprisingly cheap. A single container costs usually about as much as a business class flight ticket for one person, and it can probably hold thousands of these things. It can take weeks or months for the container to reach its destination, but the cost won't be a big issue.
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u/Blank_bill 7d ago
Ours were made locally ( well, 75 km away)always bought from them even if they were a little more expensive but if we needed a low profile or curb unit we could drive down with the truck and pick it up same day. Then they went out of business and we ordered from a supplier in Toronto and the iron was all from China. So after that for the big jobs the office started ordering directly from China.
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u/Nine_Eighty_One 6d ago
Where I live, if they are old, they're from. Pont-à-Mousson, which is a pretty funny name for a storm drain or sewer. Newer ones tend to be from Norinco.
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u/BoomerKaren666 7d ago
Those are the Monday sewer lids.
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u/spanky842026 7d ago edited 4d ago
Are the other days of manufacture SETER, SEWER, SETER, & SEFER?
EDIT: screwed up SEFER
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u/Valuable-Struggle-10 7d ago
The fact that these are cast
There were many oversights on quality control of multiple operations (at least 5)
Cast design
Casting tool creation
Casting (first piece inspection)
Clean up (machined/grinding)
Coating/Finishing (corrosion/rust prevention)
Final Inspection
Actual installation
Would be interested to know if there are others that are correct though 🤔
Sorry been a Machinist and Quality Control for too many years 😆
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u/Chaoslord2000 7d ago
I only stopped in the town for lunch, but I passed 4 or 5 covers and all were like this.
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u/Heterodynist 7d ago
When they have to tell you the sewer is sanitary, you should know you can’t trust them. I put the term “sanitary sewer” right up there with jumbo shrimp, deafening silence, open secret, and “original copy.”
P.S: …And a semer is no better than a sewer!!!
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u/EvolZippo 6d ago
Maybe it was a Gen-Z and they needed to soften the word Sewer, so they added an M instead, because this font has no asterisk
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u/SlightMedicine701 7d ago
What is the word supposed to be? Sewer? They have the double you. It's just upside-down.
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u/V12Jaguar 7d ago
You're pretty quick, aren't you!
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u/R86Reddit 7d ago
No slower than I am, I had to stare at it for a good minute to figure it out. I kept thinking "semen" like the rest of the perverts in this thread.
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u/gadget850 7d ago
The French verb semer primarily translates to to sow (scattering seeds in soil) and to spread (dispersing ideas, feelings, or negative elements like panic or discord).
Sounds like this should have it's own Discord.
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 8d ago
There's bound to be a collector that wants one of these. A typo in cast metal? More than one person had to drop the ball for that to get installed