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4 Requests to the engineer to instruct the contractor or make something clear.
.
5 Separate documents referring to details that don’t correspond with each
other .

c Complete the following pairs of sentences using the verbs in the box.
advise clarify dash propose request

1 The components are in each other’s way. = The components .
2 Please ask for more information. = Please more information.
3 Can I suggest a solution to the problem? = Can I a solution?
4 Please instruct the supplier to send the parts to this address. = Please
the supplier.
5 Any conflicting details must be queried. = You must any
conflicting details.

4a In pairs, look at the following plan and sections from a drawing on the ski complex
project, showing steelwork details on part of a ski lift. Examine how the rectangular plate
is bolted to the T profile below it. Can you find the discrepancy between the details, and the
clash preventing the connection from being assembled?

b Chen, a technician, is explaining the problem in Exercise 14a to Ron, an engineer.
Complete the conversation using the words in the box.
alternative as per clarify clash confirm contradicts discrepancy
propose
Chen: There’s a (1) discrepancy between these details that you might be
able to (2) straight away. On the plan of this plate, it shows eight bolts. But
on section A, here, there are no bolts shown in the middle. So there would only be six, which
obviously (3) the plan. But as you can see, this plate's going to be bolted to a
Tprofile. So we couldn’t put a row of bolts down the middle, because they’d (4)
with the flange running along the middle of the T. So I’d
(5) just going for two rows of bolts. The (6) would be to
redesign the T section, which would obviously be a bigger job.
Ron: Yes. Let's go for two rows of bolts, (7) the sections.
Chen: OK, fine. Will you send an email to (8) that?

c 4.6 Read the conversation and check your answers to Exercise 14b. How does the
explanation compare with your description of the problem?

Chen: There’s a discrepancy between these details that you might be able to clarify straight
away. On the plan of this plate, it shows eight bolts. But on section A, here, there are no bolts
shown in the middle. So there would only be six, which obviously contradicts the plan. But as
you can see, this plate's going to be bolted to a T profile. So we couldn't put a row of bolts down
the middle, because they'd clash with the flange running along the middle of the T. So I'd

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