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JudgeHoltman t1_j2j56mz wrote

Reply to comment by beamer145 in Water pipe robots could stop billions of litres leaking by Sariel007

Take it a step further.

What if you discover a crack less than 1cm in width with this fancy robot or my GoPro on an RC car?

Are you really going to fix it? How? Is it worth it? Or would you just wait until the crack gets big enough that it would be easily visible on a camera anyway?

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dern_the_hermit t1_j2jlsp7 wrote

Probably use the information for modeling future maintenance/replacement schedules and such. Less "we see a crack, let's fix it" and more like "we're seeing X new cracks a week, let's bump up the maintenance of this sector by Y months" or whatever.

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Reluxtrue t1_j2jp1pu wrote

Also if you spot a small crack you note the plcement it and keep checking it regularly to see if it is getting bigger.

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